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Subject: Re: symlink: /home -> /usr/home vs. /home -> usr/home in default
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Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:

>On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Andriy Tkachuk wrote:
>
>AT> The idea is this: if you mount your / to another
>AT> place (for example /mnt on another computer), your
>AT> /mnt/home will point to correct place (/mnt/usr/home)
>AT> instead of /usr/home.
>AT>
>AT> What do you, falks, think about this?
>
>FWIW, I'm making virtually every symlink relative instead of absolute for just
>this reason. (To be exact, more similar to Solaris' approach, so
>/sys -> ./usr/src/sys and /home -> ./usr/home)
>  
>
This is the second time I've posted about this, but I'm beginning to 
think this is a very good idea.  I really don't foresee any problems 
with it.  Since you guys already have some of this work complete, 
perhaps you could submit a PR for it?

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William Michael Grim
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