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ktpsns 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A_brief_story_of_hier

Don't understand your concerns. Symlinks remain for compatibility. No need to change any tooling.

o11c 9 months ago [–]

Symlinks let you run unmerged software on merged systems, but actively break running merged software on unmerged systems.

And of course you haven't addressed the "what package installed this file" half of my post at all.

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