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>>>>> On Sun, 21 Mar 2021, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/737914 seems to imply for some upstreams, it |
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> being a file is not a valid option anymore? |
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> (I'm ignoring the logic of that decision of course, but this was the |
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> original reason this was raised.) |
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Indeed, that's a strange design decision. It also violates the principle |
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of least surprise, because nobody will expect a symlink to behave any |
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different from a literal copy of the file (or even from a hardlink) when |
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reading it. |
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Ulrich |
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