As far as I'm aware, group always emits absolute paths, and hence link --soft, after reading the report, always creates absolute symlinks.
It would be nice if the created symlinks were relative to link location (similar to how ln --symbolic --relative works). That way copying the deduplicated hierarchy to a different filesystem would retain the symlinks instead of breaking them.
As far as I'm aware,
groupalways emits absolute paths, and hencelink --soft, after reading the report, always creates absolute symlinks.It would be nice if the created symlinks were relative to link location (similar to how
ln --symbolic --relativeworks). That way copying the deduplicated hierarchy to a different filesystem would retain the symlinks instead of breaking them.