>   sort of...yeah.  did you give any thought to collapsing stuff like
>   
>      /usr/src/foo/bar/fork/knife/spoon/../../../Makefile
>   
>   to 
>   
>      /usr/Makefile
>
>you can't really do that.  you don't know where you'll really end up
>after the ..'s, due to symlinks.

well...it would be a lot more work, but it *could* be done.

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