Hi list, I'm new to this list but have had a hard time convincing redhat people that broken symlinks are bad! (I'm not going to bother trying to convice you ;-) What I would like to do is get a "package" to take responsibility for the many broken symlinks out there. So that at least a broken symlink can be assigned to a specific package the owner of which thinks (sic) that the symlink is "required" from his/her perspective. (I won't say that the code should be more intelligent & create a symlink if it is really necessary & remove it when it's broken as that would expect too much) Please see, https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/#/case/01326479 for more detail. Generally many packages create symlinks, but don't "own them", I'd like to change that. eg. kernel packagages if the source is not installed. Try, find / -type l -exec file "{}" \; |grep broken Cheers johnd John Dodson | Bosch Research Engineering & Computing Facility Manager, | Network Manager Medical Sciences, Electrical/Electronics/Control | Telecommunications Engineer Physiology/School of Medical Sciences The University of Sydney Rm N252,Anderson Stuart Building (F13) Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney|NSW|2006|Australia. T +61 2 9351 5246 | F +61 2 9351 2058 | M +61 4 1459 7557 E johnd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | W http://www.physiol.usyd.edu.au/johnd ABN:15 211 513 464 CRICOS Number: 00026A I'd rather be on OTI... http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/OTI https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/One+Tree+Island,+Queensland/@-23.5666571,152.0677812,16866m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x6be8f7e9c43efc07:0x366affbec813622c -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
