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</td><a style="text-decoration: none; padding: 4px 8px; margin: 0 8px 8px; float: right; color: #464C5C; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F9; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom,#fff,#f1f0f1); display: inline-block; border: 1px solid rgba(71,87,120,.2);" href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D7952" rel="noreferrer">View Revision</a></tr></table><br /><div><div><p>Because Path is a generic data structure. Doing it at the place where it's being used allows this feature to be handled in a much faster way for the common case. The UDSEntry from a KIO list job e.g. knows if something is a symlink already and we can then canonicalize the path as needed. Your patch would add the overhead of this duplicate check to every user.</p>
<p>I claim that we simply haven't yet fully understood why something breaks for you (cf. my last comment to <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D7930" style="background-color: #e7e7e7;
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color: black;text-decoration: none;" rel="noreferrer">D7930</a>). As such, adding a workaround on such a low level is not the correct fix, it's simply a workaround.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R32 KDevelop</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D7952" rel="noreferrer">https://phabricator.kde.org/D7952</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>rjvbb, KDevelop, mwolff<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>mwolff, kdevelop-devel, geetamc, Pilzschaf, akshaydeo, surgenight, arrowdodger<br /></div>