Why is /dev/console linked to /dev/tty0?

[Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>]

Hi,

recently, I wanted to use an Eterm as a substitute for
xconsole. Eterm -C lets it listen to /dev/console.
On Debian systems, however, /dev/console is linked to /dev/tty0:

  lrwxrwxrwx   1 root  root  4 Apr  7  1999 /dev/console -> tty0

so *Eterm doesn't catch anything*. xconsole, OTOH, displays fine what
I'm echoing to /dev/console.

To prevent suggestions in the wrong direction: no, I'm not using
syslogd for these messages. I just do things like 

  echo "Running exim..." > /dev/console

in my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ scripts.

Both using syslogd or removing this link to /dev/tty0 seem like
cowardice to me.

Why is this link done anyway? This is Debian specific, AFAIK.
How could I fix this cleanly?

TIA,
  Colin

PS: My system is plain slink.

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