diff -Nuar localepurge-0.5.9.orig/usr/sbin/localepurge localepurge-0.5.9/usr/sbin/localepurge
--- localepurge-0.5.9.orig/usr/sbin/localepurge	2006-10-20 23:32:53.000000000 +0200
+++ localepurge-0.5.9/usr/sbin/localepurge	2007-09-25 20:02:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 
 for NEWLOCALE in $(cd /usr/share/locale; ls .)
 do 
- if [ -d /usr/share/locale/$NEWLOCALE/LC_MESSAGES ]; then
+ if [ -d /usr/share/locale/$NEWLOCALE/LC_MESSAGES -a ! -h /usr/share/locale/$NEWLOCALE ]; then
     if [ ! "$(grep -cx $NEWLOCALE $LOCALELIST)" = "1" ]; then
         echo "$NEWLOCALE" >> "$NEWLOCALELIST"
     fi
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
          do
           if [ ! "$(grep -x ^$LOCALE /etc/locale.nopurge)" ] && \
              [ "$(grep -x ^$LOCALE $LOCALELIST)" ]; then
-            if [ -d $LOCALEDIR/$LOCALE/LC_MESSAGES ]; then
+            if [ -d $LOCALEDIR/$LOCALE/LC_MESSAGES -a ! -h $LOCALEDIR/$LOCALE ]; then
                 for file in "$LOCALEDIR/$LOCALE"/*/*
                  do
                   if [ -f "$file" ] || [ -h "$file" ]; then 
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
          do
           if [ ! "$(grep -x ^$LOCALE /etc/locale.nopurge)" ] && \
              [ "$(grep -x ^$LOCALE $LOCALELIST)" ]; then
-            if [ -d $LOCALEDIR/$LOCALE/LC_MESSAGES ]; then
+            if [ -d $LOCALEDIR/$LOCALE/LC_MESSAGES -a ! -h $LOCALEDIR/$LOCALE ]; then
                 for file in "$LOCALEDIR/$LOCALE"/*/*
                  do
                   if [ -f "$file" ] || [ -h "$file" ]; then 
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
          do
           if [ ! "$(grep -x ^$LOCALE /etc/locale.nopurge)" ] && \
              [ "$(grep -x ^$LOCALE $LOCALELIST)" ]; then
-              if [ -d $MANPAGEDIR/$LOCALE ]; then
+              if [ -d $MANPAGEDIR/$LOCALE -a ! -h $MANPAGEDIR/$LOCALE ]; then
                   for file in "$MANPAGEDIR/$LOCALE"/man[1-9]/*
                    do
                     if [ -f "$file" ] || [ -h "$file" ]; then 
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
          do
           if [ ! "$(grep -x ^$LOCALE /etc/locale.nopurge)" ] && \
              [ "$(grep -x ^$LOCALE $LOCALELIST)" ]; then
-              if [ -d $MANPAGEDIR/$LOCALE ]; then
+              if [ -d $MANPAGEDIR/$LOCALE -a ! -h $MANPAGEDIR/$LOCALE ]; then
                 for file in "$MANPAGEDIR/$LOCALE"/man[1-9]/*
                  do
                     if [ -f "$file" ] || [ -h "$file" ]; then