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Jürg Billeter authored
Resolving symlinks during staging causes various issues: * Split rules may not work properly as the resolved paths will differ depending on whether another artifact with a directory symlink has been staged in the same root directory or not, e.g., as part of compose. * The order of symlinks in file lists is difficult to get right to guarantee consistent and predictable behavior as paths in a file list might rely on symlinks in the same file list. See #647 and #817. * Staging order differences can lead to surprising results. See #390. * Difficult to properly support absolute symlinks. Absolute symlinks are currently converted to relative symlinks, however, this doesn't always work. See #606 and #830. This will require changes in projects that rely on the current behavior. However, the changes are expected to be small and are often a sign of buggy element files. E.g., elements that don't fully obey `bindir` or `sbindir` variables.
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