Re: Clarification of §10.5 symlink wording needed
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 03:32:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Besides "/usr -> /", are symlinks to directories still supported as
> > top-level directories and are there still people using such a setup?
> > If nobody uses this anymore, the policy could be adapted to the year
> > 2011.
>
> Is there any reason *not* to continue supporting them? They can
> definitely save you as a short term measure to work around a bad
> partitioning scheme until one can fix it by reformatting.
A reason might be that now we have bind mounts which are generally much more robust
than symlinks. That was not the case where this policy was written.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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