[buug] ln -sf bug (& standards, etc.)

[Ian Zimmerman]

Michael> I think the "good news" here is it appears these things are on
Michael> relatively convergent paths - at least with regard to the most
Michael> common options (-s and -f) (most notably some LSB deprecated
Michael> features and most current LSB release candidate, and the most
Michael> current specifications from The Open Group Specifications).

Do you think GNU will remove the -n flag or reverse its semantics if it
is removed by LSB?  I bet against it.  There's still the possibility
that distributions will do it with a patch, but I don't like that
much either, it breaks compiling from source.

Scripts should probably work around by testing if the target is a
symlink, and if so remove it first; and LSB should _not_ specify one
behavior or the other, just leave it undefined.

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