* 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 -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]