Bug#224366: Relative links vs. symlinks.
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:09:42PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> severity 224366 wishlist
> thanks
>
> There are arguments for both sides - Having absolute links makes it
> harder to mount remote systems (for use in cross-compilers), and harder
> to work with chroots.
>
> In any event, having /usr be a symlink is an unusual configuration (on
> Linux, anyway... *g*), so I'm going to set the severity to wishlist for
> now.
FWIW, I think we used to go to great trouble to create absolute
links...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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