this essentially creates a shortcut (similar to a symlink created with "ln"), however rather than a "link" the shortcut can be viewed more as a "gateway" and is hence stronger than a symlink
It's useful in situation where operations in a symlink target throw errors referencing the original location (e.g. some compilation pipelines, or SNAP packages). In this case, replace the symlink with a bind mount
Linux "mount" command takes the "bind" argument:
this essentially creates a shortcut (similar to a symlink created with "ln"), however rather than a "link" the shortcut can be viewed more as a "gateway" and is hence stronger than a symlink
It's useful in situation where operations in a symlink target throw errors referencing the original location (e.g. some compilation pipelines, or SNAP packages). In this case, replace the symlink with a bind mount