Re: cleanlinks breaks xterm and apt
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:24:47PM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote
(on debain-user):
> cleanlinks is dangerous, it wasn't never meant for general system
> maintenance and doesn't work as advertised in its manpage.
Rather than fixing cleanlinks to work better, which is apparently not
happening, the manpage at least should be corrected to warn of this bug
in big flashing red letters. (cleanlinks deletes all symlinks to
anything that isn't a regular file, e.g. symlinks to directories)
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