[Slackbuilds-users] Introduction & questions about link creation for the 'oxygen-gtk' theme

[Eric Schultz]

From: Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr>
To: slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:54:09 +0200
Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Introduction & questions about link
creation for the 'oxygen-gtk' theme
Le 18/06/2011 12:05, Binh Nguyen a écrit :

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> Well, I got it: the symlink is created, but broken. And as soon as
> 'oxygen-gtk' is installed, the broken symlink becomes valid.
> The idea which got me stuck was: create a symlink on a - yet - nonexistent file.

It's the -s option on the ln command that lets you get away with
creating links to non-existent files!