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

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Mon Jul 27 11:13:43 EDT 2009


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.

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