On 29 Sep 2020, at 5:59 pm +0000, Barnabás Pőcze wrote: > Hi Hello,
> 2020. szeptember 29., kedd 0:45 keltezéssel, Ivy Foster írta: > > On 28 Sep 2020, at 6:19 pm +0000, Barnabás Pőcze via pacman-dev wrote: > > > [pacman not following symlinks] may or may not be an actual bug, > > > [...] Could someone confirm that this is indeed the intended > > > behaviour? And if yes, why? > > This is the intended behavior: pacman will only install files to real > > destinations and does not follow symlinks, so that it can always > > (barring user interference) have an accurate idea of where in the > > filesystem the files it installed actually are. > I see, thanks for the explanation. No problem! It's a good question, since "everything should follow symlinks all the time" is an easy assumption to make.
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