Reported 06.05.05 17:42 from Joe Wreschnig:
On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 11:25 +0200, Tapio Tallgren wrote:
Chris Howie wrote:
When the library is set and refreshed, symlinks are ignored. This is not good
for me, since I have my MP3 library separate from my Ogg Vorbis library on
different devices. My library folder consists of a symlink to each of these
folders. Quodlibet ignores them, and so my library is empty.
If the current behavior is preferred for some people, at least an option to
enable symlinks would be nice.
I had the same problem. The solution is to list all directories in
"Preferences/Scan Directories", separated by a colon.
And yes I agree that this is very confusing.
Why is it confusing? What Unix tools do follow symbolic links when
recursively scanning directories without special options? None that I'm
aware of.
What Unix tools do separate multiple directories with colons? Almost all
that I'm aware of (there's even a special pathsep token in Python to
handle this in a cross-platform manner).
As ftw(3) says,
FTW_PHYS
If set, do not follow symbolic links. (This is what you want.)
I would find it very odd for symbolic links to be followed, and since
multiple directories can be listed, I don't see any use cases this is
preventing.
The option would be very useful to those of us who spread a collection
over several volumes in categorical chunks, then use symlinks to collect
them all to one folder.
Samba, for example, provides the option to follow symlinks. So I can
export the top-level folder as a single share, and Samba allows clients
to descend through the symlinks to other filesystems. If I were to run
QL on this library via the share, it should find everything.
--s
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