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To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
Cc: billf@chc-chimes.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: symbolic links in pkg/PLIST
References: <199808130242.TAA10358@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: 13 Aug 1998 08:03:12 +0200
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asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) writes:

> You can remove a symlink just like any other file using rm(1) or
> unlink(2).  I don't think pkg_delete would want to do anything more
> complicated than that. :)

pkg_delete doesn't like symlinks to directories. See teTeX/pkg/PLIST
for examples how to work around that.

tg

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