Could be worse. Could be Windows desktop shortcuts. Fuzzy logic of target resolution? Now that's messy.
Symlinks may be ugly and/or dangerous relative to the original file system concept, but they solve problems. They are not "all good", but life would be worse without them. E.g. - application by application implementation of location aliases a la IIS virual directories (or whatever they called it) for web applications.
Symlinks may be ugly and/or dangerous relative to the original file system concept, but they solve problems. They are not "all good", but life would be worse without them. E.g. - application by application implementation of location aliases a la IIS virual directories (or whatever they called it) for web applications.