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@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Janitorial Clean-ups:
 
 Features:
 
+* we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
+  chase_symlinks() instead
+
 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
   or so, which allows openeing one or more files that is "persistent" across
   service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the