On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 03:32:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Carsten Hey <[email protected]> writes: > > > Besides "/usr -> /", are symlinks to directories still supported as > > top-level directories and are there still people using such a setup? > > If nobody uses this anymore, the policy could be adapted to the year > > 2011. > > Is there any reason *not* to continue supporting them? They can > definitely save you as a short term measure to work around a bad > partitioning scheme until one can fix it by reformatting.
A reason might be that now we have bind mounts which are generally much more robust than symlinks. That was not the case where this policy was written. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110511081206.GG3496@yellowpig
