[users@httpd] world-readable .htaccess in symbolic link?

["F vE" <fve59@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I run a Apache on NetBSD 1.6, using .htaccess-files every now and then. The 
files are readable by the apache user but not world-readable, and they work 
just fine, except for the following.
In the server root, there is a symbolic link to phpmyadmin, owned by root. 
Now as to the thing I don't understand: the "real" phpmyadmin-dir contains a 
.htaccess for which it does NOT suffice that it is readable by the apache 
user: it must be world-readable. Can anybody explain to me what's going on 
here? (Obviously, this is not about a "solution": I just made the file 
world-readable...)

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