On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 07:57:31AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:08:26PM +1000, you wrote: > > Perhaps someone would like to upload a .deb that does nothing more than > > maintain symlinks? > > Something as simple as having a /etc/cron.daily script that does: > > [ -d /usr/doc ] || exit 0 > > cd /usr/share/doc > > for dir in *; do > > [ -e "/usr/doc/$a" ] || ln -s /usr/share/doc/$a /usr/doc/$a > > done > > seems to me like an acceptable solution at this point. > Uh huh. And who handles the dangling symlinks you leave when a package > gets uninstalled?
And, gosh darn it, who'd put in the "#!" line at the top? You might also want to do something more careful than using "*", and you probably want to use "$dir" instead of "$a". Whatever. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``There's nothing worse than people with a clue. They're always disagreeing with you.'' -- Andrew Over
