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Bug#40706: Reasons for not moving at all



On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 07:57:31AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:08:26PM +1000, you wrote:
> > Perhaps someone would like to upload a .deb that does nothing more than
> > maintain symlinks?
> > Something as simple as having a /etc/cron.daily script that does:
> > 	[ -d /usr/doc ] || exit 0
> > 	cd /usr/share/doc
> > 	for dir in *; do
> > 		[ -e "/usr/doc/$a" ] || ln -s /usr/share/doc/$a /usr/doc/$a
> > 	done
> > seems to me like an acceptable solution at this point.
> Uh huh. And who handles the dangling symlinks you leave when a package
> gets uninstalled?

And, gosh darn it, who'd put in the "#!" line at the top?

You might also want to do something more careful than using "*", and
you probably want to use "$dir" instead of "$a".

Whatever.

Cheers,
aj

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