# Refactoring plugin installation

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [January 24, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/refactoring-plugin-installation/78848 "2018-01-24T09:21:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 9:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/refactoring-plugin-installation/78848/2 "2018-01-24T09:39:22Z")

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I think I am fine for changing it so it only does the `ln` if for some reason the symlink does not already exist.

Also open to committing `/public/plugins/.gitignore` into the repo so the folder is always there and then we can get rid of the mkdir.

This is a very very fiddly change though I am not super comfortable accepting a first time PR for it.

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