why .usr & .etc in /root ??

[paulh177]

I'e been meaning to ask this for years, but what purpose is served by having .usr and .etc links in the /root directory?

Is there a build script somewhere that leaves them behind, or maybe there was a system script that needed them once upon a blue moon?

Deleting them doesn't seem to cause problems, and leaving them can mean an ugly infinite recursion when copying or rsyncing /root

[mikeb]

If memory serves they were left over from puppy one which only stored root in a knoppix like manner.... never found a problem removing them.
It more than likely would only affect software from the puppy one era anyway.

Mike

[paulh177]

That's the sort of thing I suspected.

I just cloned the woof-CE source to have a sniff around, and it seems they're both created as part of a woof build, from the rootfs-skeleton, but I'm so far far behind on the state of puppy creation & maintenance these days I don't even know if that's what is used for creating new pup releases

Still, I've raised an issue on github anyway.

[paulh177]

I always liked Knoppix tho.
I just liked Puppy better

[mikeb]

Still, I've raised an issue on github anyway.

Good idea as it is a woefully obsolete feature.

I have a liking for Slax myself but there are things that happen in puppy which are irresistible.

mike