Bug#675920: xulrunner-dev: Please do not use hard links

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Mon Jun 4 07:59:48 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 09:45:18AM +0200, Erik Braun wrote:
> Package: xulrunner-dev
> Version: 10.0.4esr-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainers,
> 
> Please do not use hard links. Users of (file-)systems without hard
> link support across directories, e. g. OpenAFS, cannot simply install
> this package with "aptitude".
> 
> The benefit of using hard links instead of symbolic links or copies of
> the tar same files is marginal:
> 
> # tar xzf data.tar.gz
> # du -ks usr
> 33484   usr
> # cp -r usr usr_deref
> # du -ks usr_deref
> 33552   usr_deref

What files are hardlinked?

Mike





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