Re: Relative and absolute symlinks

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

* 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