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[Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx>]

Per a chat that Kevin, Carsten, and I were having today, I sent an email
to the TexLive User Group, and asked why symlinks weren't enabled by
default. This is the response that I received back from one of the
members.

Have a great day:)
Patrick.

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• From: karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Karl Berry)
• Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:37:30 GMT
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• In-reply-to: <1345924320.3545.20.camel@dcky-ubuntu64>

Hi Patrick,

    I'm curious if there's a specific reason why symlinks are not activated
    by default

Yes, there is: it would be wrong to mess with the user's system
directories by default.

All the best,
k

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