On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 01:54:32PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > Is it ok to make the doc/libpkg-dev directory be a symlink to the > doc/libpkg directory, since libpkg-dev cannot be installed without > libpkg? I think this practice ought to be acceptable, to avoid > duplicate files in doc/**. I think this is ok and now practise ls -l /usr/doc/|grep "^l" lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Aug 24 14:46 aalib-bin -> aalib1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Aug 24 14:46 aalib1-dev -> aalib1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Aug 24 14:43 enlightenment-theme -> enlightenment-docs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 24 14:44 explorer-icons-orig -> explorer lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 24 14:43 freetype -> freetype1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 24 14:48 gdk-imlib-dev -> imlib-base lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 24 14:44 gdk-imlib1 -> imlib-base lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Aug 24 14:43 glutg3-dev -> glutg3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 24 14:48 gnome -> gnome-core lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 24 14:48 gnome-guile -> libguilegtk0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 2 02:01 hylafax-client -> hylafax lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 2 02:01 hylafax-doc -> hylafax lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 2 02:01 hylafax-server -> hylafax lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 24 14:47 imlib-dev -> imlib-base lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 24 14:47 imlib-progs -> imlib-base lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 24 14:47 imlib1 -> imlib-base lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 24 14:43 lesstif-bin -> lesstifg lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 24 14:47 lesstifg-dev -> lesstifg lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Aug 24 14:43 libc5-altdev -> libc5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Aug 24 14:37 libc6-dev -> libc6 ..... Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense." --- Prof. Larry Wasserman
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