On 5/12/24 17:46, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 12/4/24 2:38 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
My main query with this was why do I get all those types of messages from symlinks when I issue "sudo symlinks -r -d /" which is the command to delete dangling symlinks?
It deleted the dangling ones, but it also printed all the other ones as usual.
I might be skating on thin ice here, but here goes, as a developer, and the way I write programs to the level of user friendliness required where I work, in my view what is happening is badly written code, to use terminology that is common where I work, it should not be producing the extra guf that is incidental to what it has been asked to do, which is delete dangling symlinks. Where I work if I wrote software like this I would be hauled over the coals for do it and made to rewrite the code.
Having said this though, I'm not suggesting that the application should be removed, what it is doing is a needed process, I'm just suggesting that when the app is being maintained next, that the maintainer think about what could be done to streamline its functionality, and maybe look at revising it as time permits. I'm not saying the changes need to be a big bang approach, incremental changes are quite acceptable.
regards,
Steve
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