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sort of liking the symlink idea - illustrated here: <http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2013-October/032982.html>

```
+/* Attempts to shorten 'name' by creating a symlink for the directory part of
+ * the name and indirecting through &lt;symlink&gt;/&lt;basename&gt;.  This works on
+ * systems that support symlinks, as long as &lt;basename&gt; isn't too long.```

would love <@U04S45AHA> take as well on all of this given the new options

How does symlink help - it has to be a symlink placed in the short /var or /tmp or /home/X anyway right?

so why not just make it a real dir at that point

where should the test go for `pants list` using daemon? <https://rbcommons.com/s/twitter/r/3873>, is there existing tests for `dependencies` goal?

<@U0AALHEDR>: we haven't begun stitching together the integration tests for the two modes

...and frankly, we should probably wait for kris' go-ahead before doing that.

for now, another "legacy" specific integration test might be the way to go

similar to tests/python/pants_test/engine/legacy/test_dependencies.py

those can all be deleted/ported once we have a way to run the existing integration tests sans-daemon

&gt; it has to be a symlink placed in the short /var or /tmp or /home/X anyway right?

yeah, but its easier to just create a throwaway symlink in there than to relocate it entirely

and the idea would be this is on-demand vs default

only the N odd customers who have longer paths get the symlinks as fallback etc

the engine increments the number of shadow-intransitive targets <https://www.diffchecker.com/d9026bfu>

filed <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/3428> for ^

<http://distributed.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>

also: <https://github.com/cloudpipe/cloudpickle>

cloudpickle seems to have some similar goals to <https://github.com/uqfoundation/dill>

blugh... order of sourcefiles matters to wire

could we not just always stable sort source files collections?

```    'elements.proto', # Order matters here.
    'compound.proto',```

<https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/3497>