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From: Brian Dessent [mailto:brian AT dessent DOT net] 
> 
> That would be up to the base-files package maintainer, 
> however I don't think it's necessary.  As I said the current 
> DLL code already normalizes symlink targets so if you use a 
> snapshot you will see those links in POSIX form with "ls -l" 
> even though they're stored on disk as Win32 paths.  

Good point. I'll look forward to the new release, and just use your
suggested workaround for now.  Thank you again for your help.

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