Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:21:10 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Tobias Kortkamp <tobik@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r459753 - in head/deskutils: . freeplane freeplane/files Message-ID: <20180123152110.GA18316@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1516720372.2689994.1245262664.06EEC8C7@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <201801231415.w0NEFuvx082953@repo.freebsd.org> <20180123141944.GB73049@FreeBSD.org> <1516720372.2689994.1245262664.06EEC8C7@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 04:12:52PM +0100, Tobias Kortkamp wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018, at 15:19, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > ...
> > > + ${LN} -s ${DATADIR}/freeplane.sh ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/freeplane
> >
> > Symlinks pointing to an absolute path are bad.
>
> Can you please explain why they "are bad"?
Think of NFS-mounted machine where absolute paths would be pointing to a
local filesystem instead of remote. Also, paths are usually much longer
than relative ones.
./danfe
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