Re: [arch-dev-public] general packaging question about symlinks

Aaron Griffin schrieb:

even when the relative link goes up to root? In this case the links are of the form ../../opt/openoffice/something - because the full path ends up in there _anyway_, I feel like the relative ../../ is unnecessary

Let's say you want to mount your arch system on another machine and open files inside it (not chroot into it). The the symlinks still stay correct. They don't if they are absolute.