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From: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] symlinks in the tree
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 13:52:10
Message-Id: 20150912135157.GJ16324@ultrachro.me
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] symlinks in the tree by "Justin Lecher (jlec)"
1 Saturday 12 Sep 2015 15:30:45, Justin Lecher (jlec) wrote :
2 > On 12/09/15 15:19, hasufell wrote:
3 > > +1 for banning symlinks
4 > >
5 >
6 > mrueg just mentioned a very crucial point. There are filesystem which
7 > don't support symlinks and would break everything.
8 >
9 >
10 +1 too
11
12 A functionality that causes a maintenance burden should be avoided. It's just
13 common sense.
14
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16 Patrice Clement
17 Gentoo Linux developer
18 http://www.gentoo.org

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