[pacman-dev] repo-add error in BSD

[Xavier]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Antonio Huete Jimenez
<ahuete.devel at gmail.com> wrote:
> repo-add uses readlink -f in linux to find out file's real path. readlink is
> part of coreutils.
> I've found that readlink in BSD don't support -f option so we need to use
> realpath instead.
>

Can anyone explain why we need readlink at all?

Otherwise, it is used in repo-remove too but repo-add and repo-remove
should be combined.