On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:27:35PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > I don't actually maintain the relevant piece of software; I just wrote a > manual page so that it had one at all. However, I agree that such a > warning should exist so that people don't unwittingly remove the > /lib/libc.so.6 symlink. > > Branden? /lib/libc.so.6 sure isn't a dangling symlink on *my* box. If cleanlinks removed THAT, it's buggy. Still, I am not sure of the wisdom in running recursive removal programs of any sort over paths managed by the packaging system, and am less sure that caveats against it can practically be added to every manpage where such an admonition might be relevant. -- G. Branden Robinson | Men are born ignorant, not stupid. Debian GNU/Linux | They are made stupid by education. branden@debian.org | -- Bertrand Russell http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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