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Yes, all <front> links (such as breadcrumbs) will still point to an empty
path, because that's the way it's supposed to work. You could probably write
a module to auto-forward path '' to path "home" fairly easily (hook_init(),
probably?). I don't know of an existing way to do that, but that's probably
how I'd go about it given silly constraints like that
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I have notice that the front page module has a "redirect" option which says:
"REDIRECT will automatically redirect visitors [...] to a specific page specified in the REDIRECT TO box."
There is also a "redirect" option for the breadcrumb.
Never tried it, so I don't know whether it does the trick.