From d30148e3fed6910ce7e19a1ff7482b5fbd9da7b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:33:03 +0200
Subject: caretaker-setup(7): Document ../$etc/foo cases in the links file

---
 man/7/caretaker-setup.pod | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

(limited to 'man/7')

diff --git a/man/7/caretaker-setup.pod b/man/7/caretaker-setup.pod
index 105528b..98affeb 100644
--- a/man/7/caretaker-setup.pod
+++ b/man/7/caretaker-setup.pod
@@ -55,3 +55,17 @@ Now you can install the vim package the normal way
   created   .vimrc          -> packages/vim/etc/vimrc
 
 And that's it. You can safely rm -rf /tmp/vim now.
+
+=head2 THE LINKS FILE
+
+Note that the '$etc' used in this example is a B<relative> symlink.
+So if you want to symlink something which is in a subdirectory of your home,
+you will have to set the target to C<< ../$etc/something >> (or similar).
+
+Example:
+
+  soft .ssh/config ../$etc/config
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+checklinks(1), ct(1), caretaker(7)
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