* Kris Deugau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070414 00:02]:
> Hope Duryea wrote:
> > The problem is my /usr is actually a symlink,
> [snip behaviour explanation]
> 
> I have to ask...  *Why* do you have /usr as a symlink?  Extra partition,
> loopback mount, NFS mount I can understand...  Symlink I just can't see
> being more useful than any of the other three I noted, or any variants
> on the same theme.

Symlink might have been helpful before bindmounting was invented. I
would propose to officially EOL symlink special handling in dpkg for
Lenny.


Cheers,
Andi
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