Re: Relative and absolute symlinks
* Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> [2008-08-27 16:57:58 CEST]:
> 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?
That would totally be along the lines that I thought and I'm glad that
others think the idea makes sense, too.
Thanks. :)
Rhonda
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