Re: [gentoo-dev] symlinks in the tree

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2015-09-12, o godz. 15:30:45
"Justin Lecher (jlec)" <jlec@g.o> napisał(a):

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> On 12/09/15 15:19, hasufell wrote:
> > +1 for banning symlinks
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> mrueg just mentioned a very crucial point. There are filesystem which
> don't support symlinks and would break everything.

Just to be clear, I don't see that as being a problem.

I would expect Gentoo development to occur on systems which support
symlinks properly. For user systems, I would expect rsync mirrors to
replace symlinks with duplicated files.

That said, I have the same stance for symlinks as I have for
'if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]' blocks in ebuilds -- I don't like them but I
can live with them.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>