Mostly because theres a whole fscking lot of them....
 one for every i18n variant as of the all.

//Spider

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On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:15:37 -0500
Ben Lutgens <lamer@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:33:55PM +0200, Spider wrote:
> >Hello, 
> >  I'm trying to solve this bug : 
> >     http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2094
> >  and looking at the src_install, it does make DESTDIR... install
> >looking inside scrollkeeper Makefiles show :
> >
> >
> >install-data-local:
> >        $(LN_S) -f -n $(DESTDIR)$(scrollkeeper_data_link_dir)
> >$(DESTDIR)$(scrollkeeper_data_dir)
> 
> Why not comment that out with some sed black magic and do a 
> for i in /path/to/files/* ; do
> 	dosym $i /path/to/symlink/to
> done
> 
> >
> >
> >Now...
> >  how would I go around making portage change the destination links
> >  as
> >well as the issuing links here?
> >
> >
> >
> >//Spider
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> 
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