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Option to avoid symlink target checking

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As part of my install process, I point a few links to my Dropbox folder, which has typically not been installed yet when I install a new machine. I would like to be able to keep the links pointing to non-existent locations so that they are there when I install dropbox.

Currently, I get a “non-existent” warning, which stops the running of the Dotbot script. Would it be possible to add a ignore-missing flag so that this sort of use-case can be supported? Or maybe I haven’t found the correct way to do it?

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  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Reactions:1
  • Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

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robobenkleincommented, May 25, 2018

I think this should be easy enough to implement. Once we get the LinkIf and PyYAML done, I’ll be glad to make another PR for it. Shouldn’t be too hard, considering it’s just reducing the amount of work dotbot does as a boolean expression.

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anishathalyecommented, Dec 31, 2019

Fixed in #178, now merged.

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