On 29 Sep 2020, at 5:59 pm +0000, Barnabás Pőcze wrote:
Hi
Hello,
2020. szeptember 29., kedd 0:45 keltezéssel, Ivy Foster írta:
On 28 Sep 2020, at 6:19 pm +0000, Barnabás Pőcze via pacman-dev wrote:
[pacman not following symlinks] may or may not be an actual bug, [...] Could someone confirm that this is indeed the intended behaviour? And if yes, why?
This is the intended behavior: pacman will only install files to real destinations and does not follow symlinks, so that it can always (barring user interference) have an accurate idea of where in the filesystem the files it installed actually are.
I see, thanks for the explanation.
No problem! It's a good question, since "everything should follow symlinks all the time" is an easy assumption to make.