svn commit: r459753 - in head/deskutils: . freeplane freeplane/files

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 23 15:21:11 UTC 2018


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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