Re: dangling symlinks and upgrades (was "invisible application after upgrade").

[Jonathan Billings]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:17:56AM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > What good, valid purpose is there for a 
> > package to have a dangling symlink?
>
> I could imagine it being used as a kind of placeholder, but I wouldn't
> call it elegant.

Firefox, for example, uses a dangling symlink to represent a lock file
in your firefox profile directory.  A bunch of different applications
do the same thing, so it's not incredibly unusual to see them in your
homedir.