> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Nicolas_Fran=E7ois?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>         [email protected],  [email protected],
>         Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,  Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>         Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,  Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:14:36 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> So, if I just process every (appropriately named) file in the directory,
> I'll end up with duplicate entries.

My failing memory suggests that install-info removes duplicate
entries.  Am I right (I don't have time to look in the code right
now)?

> This can be avoided with a search data structure like a balanced
> tree or hash table, but that seems _really_ overkill.  OTOH I can't
> just ignore symlinks, they could point somewhere else
> (e.g. /usr/share/<package>) and then I'd miss their entries.
> Suggestions?

How about if you ignore only those symlinks whose targets are in the
same directory?


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