On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:03:18 -0800, Nick LaForge <nicklafo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> you'll get no argument from me on that score. > >> Ok. I'll remove it in the next version. > > I think he was responding to my hyperbolic statement there. There's > no reason not to use symlinks if we can't bind things anyway. Your > option 2 just links to the root dir in /usr/local which is just fine > provided the permissions are in place and the /usr/local dir is not > just a bunch of symlinks to individual files in /tmp/tcloop (actually > the case in my tinycore install, not that I care). The only problem > with symlinks here wasith your option 1 where cp was making copies of > symlinks instead of original files beacuse you used 'cp -HRp' instead > of 'cp -LRp'.
ok. Thanks. I think there is a bit more going on than the s/H/L/ issues. Need to look into it though. I also started a FAQ a couple of days ago, but there is not enough in it to really post yet. Documenting the issues with persistent home/local/etc. is one of the things on my todo list. Thanks for testing all this BTW. EBo --
