Re: Re: Absolute symlinks

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Axel Thimm wrote:
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:21:41PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
rpmlint spits symlink-should-be-relative warnings when it sees an
absolute symlink, and generally folks have fixed things up when
presented with the warning.

what is the rationale behind preferring relative to absolute symlinks
(unless relative means in the same folder)? I would even prefer it the
other way around to avoid breakage.

depends on your definition of breakage, whether the package is relocatable (not that we worry too much about that), whether the target of the symlink is in *this* pkg, etc... (:

-- Rex

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