Re: dangling symlink?
On 04 Oct 2003, Richard Kimber wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:17:46 +0100
> Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I don't know why this should have happened but occasionally it does.
> > It's probably a fairly rarely-occurring bug in the packaging system
> > whose effects are so trivial and harmless that nobody bothers to fix
> > it since there are more important issues to deal with.
>
> I doubt it's rare, I have about half a dozen, but I agree it's harmless -
> I've not bothered to do anything yet. Maybe when I'm bored ...
>
> - Richard.
Don't be tempted to run cleanlinks on / as root. It will remove all
kinds of empty directories which are needed, and various things will
stop working.
AC
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