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Jordan Hubbard <jordan.hubbard@gmail.com> wrote:

> Even variant symlinks (/bin -> /${ARCH}/bin), which can expand
> differently depending on the user context, have clearly
> understandable semantics - you know that the symlink is going
> to expand to exactly one file no matter what ARCH is set to.

s/file/pathname/

Depending on what ARCH is set to, the expanision may or may not
point to any actual file (or directory, or ...)