> "Historically"? You mean symlinks are discouraged/deprecated nowadays? I saw somewhere a comment from a distribution (it was Red Hat, I believe) saying that

> "Historically"? You mean symlinks are discouraged/deprecated nowadays? I saw somewhere a comment from a distribution (it was Red Hat, I believe) saying that some programs could have trouble with a symlink. I've never encountered such a program and I could easily live with a symlink, but Debian (my current main distro) went with a file copy, so I didn't bother.