From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Having relative symlinks has its advantages - it means that if you > mount your system on somewhere funny (and I've been in positions where > I've done this) then all the symlinks point to the right place (if > they did in the first place); use absolute symlinks and that wouldn't > work.
This is a very important point, and is IMHO the main reason that all symlinks are relative. On my machines, we have everything fully cross-mounted under /net, so that if I want a file /usr/lib/foo from machine janus I can refer to it as /net/janus/usr/lib/foo. Absolute symlinks would absolutely destroy this. Bill Gribble
