On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 08:14 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:17:56AM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > What good, valid purpose is there for a > > > package to have a dangling symlink? > > > > I could imagine it being used as a kind of placeholder, but I > > wouldn't > > call it elegant. > > Firefox, for example, uses a dangling symlink to represent a lock > file > in your firefox profile directory. A bunch of different applications > do the same thing, so it's not incredibly unusual to see them in your > homedir. OK, I guess the point is to not use up an inode. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
