UPDATE-SCCACHE-SYMLINKS(8)

📦 version 0.17.0, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

okay bestie, welcome to update-sccache-symlinks, section 8 of the System Manager's Manual 🎀 this one lives in the admin corner of the man pages, so pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

update-sccache-symlinks — update symlinks in /usr/lib/sccache

like, that's literally the whole job. she updates symlinks. in /usr/lib/sccache. icon behaviour, honestly 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

update-sccache-symlinks

no flags. no arguments. no options to memorise. just the command, standing there, serving main character energy 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea ☕

update-sccache-symlinks creates and removes symlinks in /usr/lib/sccache. that's it, that's the assignment. she's not doing anything mysterious, she's just tidying up the link situation in that directory ✨

and if you want the full lore on what sccache even is and why those symlinks matter, go read the sccache man page. she's the one with the details, this page is just the symlink side quest 🧚

now here's the part you actually need to hear:

it is normally not necessary to run update-sccache-symlinks by hand 🙈

because she runs herself. automatically. all on her own. whenever compiler packages are removed or installed, this happens for you — no manual input, no cron job you have to remember, no "oops I forgot to run the thing". the system just does it. lowkey obsessed with that for her 💜

so if you're sitting here reading this page thinking "do I need to run this?" — the answer is almost definitely no, bestie. she's already handled it 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • sccache(1) — the main character herself, go read her page for the actual context ✨

💌 AUTHOR 💌

this manual page was written by Joel Rosdahl <joel@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system 🎀 thank you Joel, we appreciate you fr fr 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! written 2010-08-08, living in the System Manager's Manual section 8, and honestly? a tiny queen. she does one thing, she does it automatically, and she doesn't need you to babysit her 💅✨

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