13 Apr
2021
13 Apr
'21
10:28 a.m.
On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 08:14 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
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.
OK, I guess the point is to not use up an inode.
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