Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: >Why? Because you use an absolute symlink! **Never** use absolute >symlinks, it's baaaaad. Use relative symlinks. > > Now I have the freshly upgraded 9.0 available to my delight :) So I've checked the "symlinks" utility if it can help me make sense with those absolute symlinks.
But it will only relativise symlinks within the same filesystem - It won't touch a symlink if it points to other fs. So it seems that someone has decided that absolute symlinks are preferred when they point outside the given filesystem. Consistency reasons? What you say, Guillaume?
