Aleksander Adamowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
I say, first, that I don't know "symlinks" but I think it's not necessary. Second, that soft symlinks (ln -s) can span accross multiple partitions, even relative ones, so I don't see your problem. Sure, absolute symlinks may be preferred when it comes to multiple partitions, but only because it handles the case when you don't mount a "boot" partition at the "/boot" location relative to the "/", which is not really useful after all. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
