From 810b5838b21d6151f3ecc137c49b6519b215d327 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Nagel <jacknagel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 17:22:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Simpler "use the correct symlink" checks

When determining whether to remove a symlink during unlinking, we check
three things:

  (a) Is the destination a symlink?
  (b) Does the destination exist?
  (c) Does the destination resolve to the source path?

However, since we know that the source path exists, (b) is guaranteed if
(a) and (c) are true. Thus checking (b) is unnecessary.

Similarly, when creating a new symlink during linking, we first check to
see if the link already exists by checking the same three criteria.
Again, checking (b) is unnecessary here.

See also the expanded test coverage in b52b579b.

Addendum: although we know that the source path exists during unlinking,
it doesn't matter. If the source path does not exist, then we still know
we have a broken symlink pointing into the keg we are unlinking, and
removing that symlink is still safe.
---
 Library/Homebrew/keg.rb | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/keg.rb b/Library/Homebrew/keg.rb
index e80745a0b0..6776335b7b 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/keg.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/keg.rb
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ class Keg
         dirs << dst if dst.directory? && !dst.symlink?
 
         # check whether the file to be unlinked is from the current keg first
-        next if !dst.symlink? || !dst.exist? || src != dst.resolved_path
+        next unless dst.symlink? && src == dst.resolved_path
 
         dst.uninstall_info if dst.to_s =~ INFOFILE_RX
         dst.unlink
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ class Keg
   end
 
   def make_relative_symlink dst, src, mode
-    if dst.symlink? && dst.exist? && dst.resolved_path == src
+    if dst.symlink? && src == dst.resolved_path
       puts "Skipping; link already exists: #{dst}" if ARGV.verbose?
       return
     end