On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 16:03 -0400, Adrian Mariano wrote: > That is, should the symlink include $DESTDIR, so it is valid in- > place? In this case, moving the installation to its final location > requires that the simlinks be modified. Or should the symlink refer > to the final destination, so it is invalid in-place but valid once > the installation is moved?
Speaking as someone who does a lot of relocating of things, IMO the correct solution is that the symlink resolves to a relative path, not a fully-qualified path, so that it works correctly regardless of whether the installation is used in-place or after relocation.
