[patch] simplify install links
Mike Frysinger
vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Dec 12 03:13:24 WST 2013
On Wednesday 11 December 2013 08:55:54 Matt Johnston wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 08:26:43PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > there's no need to do `rm; ln` when `ln -f` will do the same thing
>
> It's not always the same, I dislike "ln -f". For example:
>
> ln -s /tmp foo
> ln -sf /etc/hosts foo
> cat foo
GNU/coreutils' ln has the -T flag specifically for this purpose, but it means
you won't be portable. seems weird though that someone would be doing
something dumb like:
ln -s /tmp /usr/bin/dropbear
-mike
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