Bug 19525

Summary:	"Messy" symbolic links
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	tim.landscheidt
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	7.0	CC:	dr
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description tim.landscheidt 2000-10-21 19:49:32 UTC

symlinks is disturbed by the following "messy" symbolic links in
XFree86-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm and XFree86-xfs-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm:

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit -> ../../../.././etc/X11/xinit
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xsm -> ../../../.././etc/X11/xsm
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs -> ../../../.././etc/X11/fs

The "/./" is the culprit.

Comment 1 Daniel Roesen 2000-10-24 10:45:29 UTC

although it's not nice, it should have no bad side effects at all.

Comment 2 Tim Landscheidt 2000-12-11 03:20:00 UTC

That's why I chose "Severity: Enhancement" which is not printed under
"Additional Information" BTW (a bug in Bugzilla?) :-).

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2001-02-19 13:57:37 UTC

Considering the pros and cons of using absolute vs. relative symlinks,
we have come to the conclusion that there is no solution that will please
everyone in every case.  Since it cannot be both ways, we are leaving it
the way it is, which we consider the least of 2 evils.