Makepkg and symlinks
by SlackCoder from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6GZEX)
When creating a slackware package, `makepkg` provides an option (the default) to delete symlinks and add them later via the 'install/doinst.sh' script included in the package.
```
makepkg --help
Usage: makepkg package_name.tgz
(or: package_name.tbz, package_name.tlz, package_name.txz)
[...]
options: -l, --linkadd y|n (moves symlinks into doinst.sh: recommended)
-p, --prepend (prepend rather than append symlinks to an existing
```
What would be the purpose for this?
```
makepkg --help
Usage: makepkg package_name.tgz
(or: package_name.tbz, package_name.tlz, package_name.txz)
[...]
options: -l, --linkadd y|n (moves symlinks into doinst.sh: recommended)
-p, --prepend (prepend rather than append symlinks to an existing
```
What would be the purpose for this?