Hi Linus,

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:14 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 14 2018, Johannes Sixt jotted:
> >>
> >> It is important to leave the default at hard-linking the binaries,
> >> because on Windows symbolic links are second class citizens (they
> >> require special privileges and there is a distinction between link
> >> targets being files or directories). Hard links work well.
> >
> > Yeah makes sense. I just want to add this as an option, and think if
> > it's proven to be un-buggy we could probably turn it on by default on
> > the *nix's if people prefer that, but yeah, we'll definitely need the
> > uname detection.
> 
> I definitely would prefer to make symlinks the default on unix.
> 
> It's what we used to do (long long ago), and as you pointed out, it's
> a lot clearer what's going on too when you don't have to look at inode
> numbers and link counts.
> 
> Forcing hardlinking everywhere by default just because Windows
> filesystems suck donkey ass through a straw is not the right thing
> either.

The most sensible thing, of course, would be to *not* link the builtins at
all. I mean, we deprecated the dashed form (which was a design mistake,
whether you admit it or not) a long time ago.

Ciao,
Johannes