On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Cedric Staniewski<[email protected]> wrote: > Xavier wrote: >> >> But should we remove the symlink manually then? >> _______________________________________________ >> pacman-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev > > I'm not sure. Always thought they are there on purpose (mostly used > bsdtar), even though they are usually not needful. > > The current behaviors are: > bsdtar keeps symlinks > gunzip removes symlinks > bunzip2 removes symlinks > xz keeps symlinks
Thank you, thats very informative :) So we were already inconsistent before. What about always keeping symlinks, ie adding -k to gunzip and bunzip2 as well? _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
