Re: Relative and absolute symlinks
Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> writes:
> * Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> [2008-08-15 16:47:41 CEST]:
>> So, is there any reason at all to use relative symlinks?
>
> Quite some times I experienced them to be more pain than gain, too. It
> might be useful if people shift around complete hierarchies, but we are
> not really speaking of package-internal symlinks here usually.
And Debian doesn't support relocatable packages in general anyway.
We should clearly use relative symlinks within the same directory, and
probably from a directory to a subdirectory, but I do wonder about the
merits of any symlink containing ../. I'm not sure what we'd lose by
making any symlink that climbs directories absolute instead of relative,
and I think we'd definitely gain from having somewhat less weirdness and
breakage in corner cases.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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