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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by heinrichhartman on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:16AM (#20845861)
It's actually not an anti-pattern, to symlic files to their install locations. It's quite common to install executables to custom locations like `/opt/$company/bin` or `/opt/$appname/bin` and only symlink to /local/bin, ~/bin, etc.

GNU Stow (already mentioned here) and NIX are examples.

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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by kccqzy on Saturday August 31, 2019 @11:01AM (#20846664)
Executables are easy. You don't even need symlinks. Just a wrapper script that does an exec. What's harder is stuff that's not executable like configuration files. Here you have to use symlinks.
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