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David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Joe Hillenbrand <joehillen@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> The question then is, what happens when the configuration changes from
>>> having a "files" argument to not having one. What happens to the
>>> links?
>>
>> Good point.  I=E2=80=99d say we just remove the symlinks.
>
> Agreed, but how do we do the diff such that we know to remove them?

Good point as well!  I guess they may just be left there until someone
removes them.  I don=E2=80=99t think we can actually do better, can we?

Ludo=E2=80=99.