Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:49:34 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509260349.WAA27631@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199509251402.KAA12092@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 25, 95 10:02:39 am
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> Agreed. I've said it before - symlink are only useful if you > (for some reason) can't put something where it belongs, of if > it really needs to be in two places at one: the latter translates > as "cannot be easily gotten at in the proper place" or "a non-optimal > location is hard-coded in something". Symlinks have *lots* of uses other than that. I use them all the time. For example, I'll install a program as "foocalc.version" and symlink "foocalc" to it. Symlinks are clean, self-documenting, and elegant, if used properly.
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