[maemo-users] man pages: dangling symlinks?

From: Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail francisco.diaztrepat at gmail.com
Date: Thu May 5 21:50:18 EEST 2011
Hi just out of curiousity I apt-get installed man to see man pages for
the mplayer or other program

the instalation threw a lot of:

Updating index cache for path `/opt/man/fr/man1'. Wait...mandb:
warning: /opt/man/fr/man1/ex.1.gz is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /opt/man/fr/man1/fakeroot.1.gz is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /opt/man/fr/man1/vi.1.gz is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /opt/man/fr/man1/view.1.gz is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /opt/man/fr/man1/faked.1.gz is a dangling symlink


3 questions:

1) what are dangling symlinks?

2) are they bad?

3) should I correct my installation due to these messages?

thanks
f(t)
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