Steps to reproduce

I find it surprising that symlink falls back to a copy on Windows, and in some cases it is just bad. In particular here:

The trick is to update views atomically, effectively

ln -s new_dir ._view_link
mv ._view_link view

Can symlink just remain a symlink instead of something hard to reason about?

Error message

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Information on your system

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General information

• I have run spack debug report and reported the version of Spack/Python/Platform
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe this is not a duplicate
• I have run the failing commands in debug mode and reported the output