Re: Stupid question

"Lucas C. Villa Real" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
Message-ID <CAAvzgtbQJZWcYuaTg6hxgdgzmf7HQ+TBYhfQv=3Pk_eXv8EJJQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Michael Homer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Jean-Roch Huet <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > In Gobolinux, real files are stocked in the new fhs.
> >
> > In the gibohidden old fhs, there are only links.
> >
> > So if I delete a program from the new fhs, then le links in the old fhs
> will
> > be dead.
> >
> > What do they become ?
> > Are dead-links deleted automatically or will they remain in the old fhs
> > forever ?
> If you use the GoboLinux tools to remove a program they will also
> remove the links for you.
>
> If you `rm -rf` a program, the links will stay behind. There is a tool
> `RemoveBroken` that you can use to eradicate broken links after the
> fact if you have removed a program manually.
> -Michael
>

Also worth mentioning: you can use something like inotify-tools to monitor
entries on /Programs and upon the removal of files within those entries you
can instruct inotify-tools to launch RemoveBroken automatically.

Lucas

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