Re: Relative and absolute symlinks

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:

>         Do we have consensus that a:
>  a) links that do not climb directory trees should be encouraged to be
>     relative (do not break case 2)
>  b) subdirectories of /var/*/ and /usr/* should be treated as top level
>     directories for the purposes of the relative/absolute symlink rule:
>     any links that climbs out of /usr/foo/bar or /var/foo/bar should be
>     absolute, and the rest of the current rule stays in place?

Personally, I would be happy with that change.  It makes sense to me.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>