How to reproduce
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Suppose we have hosts "src" and "dst" and we have 
   testfolder/
   test -> testfolder/
under /home and 

[root@heron home]# ll /home/test/
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 13 15:29 a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 13 15:29 b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 13 15:29 c

we have file test.list which has contents below:
   /home/test/a

Now we run on host "src" following command:
   rsync -avzog -r --super -e ssh --files-from=test.list --delete / dst:/

then rsync will ignore the fact that /home/test is a valid softlink to an existing directory on "dst" and will remove it and create a new directory "test" with file "a" underneath.

This is serious. For example if you only want to sync "smb" script under /etc/init.d, you'll end up with a new /etc/init.d with only "smb" inside it on the target machine because normally /etc/init.d->/etc/rc.d/init.d. Then you won't be able to boot up the system.