Your CV joints and tie rod ends should stay relatively parallel to the control arms and should be the same length as the control arms. The control arms describe the arc that your spindle will follow. If the arc of the tie rod doesn't match, you'll get bumpsteer. If your CV is fixed-length and the arc doesn't match, the CV will bind with suspension travel.
[storytime] Several years ago we were racing an MR2 at Eagles Canyon in Decatur, TX. We were getting crazy bumpsteer on the front straightaway. We started jacking the car to inspect, and Ross noticed the front wheels turn in as the car was jacked. There's a kit for MR2s to flip the tie rod mounting points on the spindle to correct the bumpsteer that they naturally have, but if you lowered the car (we did) it made the bumpsteer worse. The tie rod was the correct length, but changing the mounting point wrecked the handling.
Since the spindles were permanently modified, we swapped them out for another set Pat had in his parts stash. The new spindles still had the dust shields, and Pat didn't want to disassemble them to remove the dust shields, so we left them on. They trapped heat, and three hours into the race we set the brakes on fire. I then grabbed a hammer and chisel and removed the dust shields in about thirty seconds. Fun stuff!