correctly identify already linked packages when global prefix is a symlink #2486
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the previous behavior caused any linked package to be identified as missing when the global prefix is a symlink.
this in turn caused arborist to attempt to install it even though it was already there, which in the case of a linked package could cause the locally linked copy to be overwritten by a published version from the registry
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Fixes #2104