On 9/15/25 3:41 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM Samuel Sieb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 9/15/25 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I use the symlink program to find and delete dangling links. Something
like this will tell you how many bad links you have:
$ sudo su -
...
# symlinks -r / | grep dangling
Or you could pipe it to `wc -l` for a count of the dangling links.
Once you see the list and approve of them, you can delete the dangling
links with the `-d` option:
# symlinks -r -d /
Also see
<https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/#sect-clean-up-old-symlinks>.
That is not a good suggestion. Most of them you don't want to delete.
This has been discussed before on this list.
I found a previous discussion at "What Does the Symlinks Command do?"
(December 2024),
<https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/7OY4BTS2SJLTQ6O6CVPUPJRSZRYZRVIS/>.
But it does not say why using symlinks is a bad (not a good) choice.
Perhaps you can point us to the thread?
It was related to that thread:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/5MEWVMHT5MMBR4G4ME3IILA7TR6C7JV5/#5MEWVMHT5MMBR4G4ME3IILA7TR6C7JV5
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