Please describe the problem:
If the directory imported contains a symbolic link, this link will be blindly followed by f-spot regardless of whether we already imported the pointed directory.

Moreover, if the link actually points backward, f-spot will loop while crawling the directory tree eventually halting after several (i counted 40) copies of the same picture have been imported.

Steps to reproduce:
1. create "fool" directory, put some picture there
2. create a symlink "bar" to ../fool in "fool" directory itself
3. import the "fool" directory


Actual results:
pictures are inserted as "fool/pic.png", "fool/bar/pic.png", "fool/bar/bar/pic.png", ... ,"fool/bar/bar/bar/.../bar/pic.png"

Expected results:
ideally, f-spot should detect that it is re-visiting a directory and skip it. If that can't be automated, an import option (default off) "follow symbolic links" should be available on non-windows platforms

Does this happen every time?
yes

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