https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98964
--- Comment #11 from Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> --- (In reply to Zoltán Böszörményi from comment #9) > Although the OS is Yocto, the Mesa recipe is mostly mine including the patch > to revert this horrible idea of hard links. Hard links are good until you > package the drivers into separate subpackages as it breaks the hard links > and creates separate files instead. I saved more than 50MB on a 2GB disk > which is substantial for an embedded system where we need the disk space but > it is very constrained. > > Haven't seen any ill effect on our systems because of it. We use only single > GPU machines, so it shouldn't make a difference in behaviour. Perhaps with > PRIME it would but we don't use it. I'm getting really off topic with this: Above all: yes using hard links is nasty. If you're having a single (or multiple fixed) GPU system then building multiple drivers is a _very_ bad idea. If you're doing that for embedded systems then it gets even worse. Thus having separate $driver subpackages makes no sense :-( Using symlinks is brittle (not PRIME related). So you really don't want to ship something based on it. </offtopic> -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20161206/1d6a3e60/attachment.html>
