[arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

ProfessorTomoe tomoe at lbjackson.com
Thu Jun 24 08:25:54 EDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 19:08 +0200, Attila wrote:

> > Is there a way to disable the symbolic link creation?  I install aur
> > packages using makepkg -ci, but the -ci switch combo does not delete
> > the symlink.  I don't want them created in the first place, so can I
> > somehow turn off this behavior?
> 
> I start using a shell script for running makepg. At the moment i have no better 
> idea to delete it. But for running namcap right after makepkg this symlink is an 
> advantage.

I don't want or need the symlinks to be created in the first place.  Can
someone advise on how to turn them off?

Barring that, could we get a pacman.conf switch to disable symlinks?




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