>>>>> On Sun, 21 Mar 2021, Alec Warner wrote: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/737914 seems to imply for some upstreams, it > being a file is not a valid option anymore?
> (I'm ignoring the logic of that decision of course, but this was the > original reason this was raised.) Indeed, that's a strange design decision. It also violates the principle of least surprise, because nobody will expect a symlink to behave any different from a literal copy of the file (or even from a hardlink) when reading it. Ulrich
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