On 9/15/25 4:59 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
On 15 Sep 2025 at 16:45, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:45:07 -0700
Subject: Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on
recent clean install
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From: Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net>
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On 9/15/25 4:31 PM, Dave Close wrote:
Samuel Sieb wrote:
For example I have this:
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/2c544875e9e66357e278e0aa06b8ac395f9251 ->
../../../../usr/lib64/ImageMagick-7.1.1/modules-Q16HDRI/coders/heic.so
It's dangling because I haven't installed the "heic" module for
ImageMagick that would provide that library.
Perhaps not directly related to this question, but I've wondered why a
packager would put such links in the "parent" package and not in the
packages containing the targets of the links. Why invite this sort of
seeming trouble that can confuse users?
I expect that would be difficult to do. Instead of just packaging the
entire directory, you would have to pick out all the individual files
and those identifiers change with almost every release.
Why would users even be looking here?
Just seems broken links would be something to avoid.
Note that the ls command will highlight the broken links.
As explained in the previous threads on this topic, they aren't
necessarily "broken". In my example it's a placeholder that gets linked
when you install another package. In other examples, an application can
store small amounts of data in the symlink, like a lock file. There's
nothing inherently bad about a dangling symlink. "ls" does flag it
because in most cases a user is looking at their own files and a
dangling symlink is probably something to fix.
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