On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Thomas Bächler<thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Aaron Griffin schrieb:
That's a fair point, but what use is an Arch system that's not chrooted into? I don't expect /mnt/archlinux/usr/bin/gtkpod to work on a CentOS system. It sounds like an edge case.
Not talking about binaries here, but generally messing around with random files on a mounted system. I often found myself in a great mess with absolute symlinks in the past, while relative never gave any downside.
A quick google returned me a similar discussion with similar arguments : https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/rpmlint-discuss/2006-June/000094.html And apparently they decided to prefer relative symlinks. However, the debian policy linked in the same post does not seem to have changed : "In general, symbolic links within a top-level directory should be relative, and symbolic links pointing from one top-level directory into another should be absolute. (A top-level directory is a sub-directory of the root directory /.) "