]] Russ Allbery > A package that wants to change a directory to a symlink (or vice versa) is > a very special case, and one that runs afoul of dpkg support for the local > system administrator moving and symlinking directories (something that can > be quite useful if one screws up disk partitioning or runs out of disk > space in the / or /usr partition, which admittedly is getting less common > on typical servers and desktops but can still be an issue for smaller > devices).
Now that we have well working bind mounts, we could actually deprecate the old way and just tell people to use bind mounts instead. At least if our non-Linux ports has decent support for it. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4pid6rq....@qurzaw.varnish-software.com
