On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 01:50:05PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> I'm not sure that making a general rule based on an edge-case is a
> good idea. Publican is not very popular at all, it's quite likely
> that none of the 70 or so people who have installed it have done
> anything unusual with moun
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> Looking at publican a number of questions occur to me
>
> * why hardlink all of the contents of
>/usr/share/doc/publican/Users_Guide/desktop/$LOCALE/Common_Content
>together rather than symlink them to some common directory like
>/usr/sha
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:16:19AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> For instance the publican package saved 3/4 of its binary package
> size. If this were a problem, then maybe we should have seen a bug
> report.
I'm not sure that making a general rule based on an edge-case is a
good idea. Publican
Hello,
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:42:18 +0100
Andrew Shadura wrote:
> > The tar file format supports hard links. Thus technically Debian
> > packages can contain hard links. A significant number of packages
> > including key packages such as bzip2, gzip, and ifupdown use this
> > technique. While sa
Hello,
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:19:17 +0100
Helmut Grohne wrote:
> The tar file format supports hard links. Thus technically Debian
> packages can contain hard links. A significant number of packages
> including key packages such as bzip2, gzip, and ifupdown use this
> technique. While same-direct
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:11:27PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> So you save a small number of inodes, and get problems if the filesystem's
> layout is unconventional. Such savings don't seem to be worth the trouble
> to me.
I was questioning the existence of said trouble. I still do that. If the
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:19:17AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> While same-directory hard links are an established practise,
> the same is not so true for cross-directory hard links.
>
> A good reason to use hard links is to save space. There are a number of
> packages that ship the same content
Hi,
The tar file format supports hard links. Thus technically Debian
packages can contain hard links. A significant number of packages
including key packages such as bzip2, gzip, and ifupdown use this
technique. While same-directory hard links are an established practise,
the same is not so true f
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