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Re: symlinks to programs


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: symlinks to programs
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 01:31:31 +0200
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On 7/4/24 21:49, Simon Josefsson wrote:
The Debian gnulib package has a symlink in /usr/bin that goes to
/usr/share/gnulib, and there are several source packages that invoke
gnulib this way.  While this suggest the usage exists, I don't think it
necessarily means we must continue support it -- this symlink business
has always felt fragile and like a weird way of working to me.

Yes it's fragile and weird, but people use it so that's a good argument for keeping it.



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