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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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>From owner-freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Tue Sep 26 00:47:55 1995
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:49:34 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <199509251402.KAA12092@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 25, 95 10:02:39 am
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
> it really needs to be in two places at one: the latter translates
> as (1) "cannot be easily gotten at in the proper place" or (2) "a
> non-optimal location is hard-coded in something".


> For example, I'll install a program as "foocalc.version" and symlink
> "foocalc" to it.

"foocalc.version" is not easy to rememeber, "foocalc" is.
Hence my category 1 case.

> Symlinks have *lots* of uses other than that. I use them all the time.
> Symlinks are clean, self-documenting, and elegant, if used properly.

Agreed. I just don't think it is a good idea to design a mechanism around
depending upon then. Because that means you are designing it to need
the file in two places at once.

-coranth

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