On 2010-11-30 22:35 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> Even with the /usr/share/doc/libncurses5-dev/examples directory removed,
>> the amount of architecture-independent data in libncurses5-dev is still
>> considerable. We have more than four Megabyte under
>> /usr/share/doc/libncurses5-dev/html and many hundreds of manpages (those
>> mostly eat inodes, since the majority of them are symlinks).
>
> would a configure option to use hardlinks be an improvement?
I'm not sure that hardlinks would survive the treatment by install,
dh_installman etc. And /usr has usually enough big files that people
run out of free blocks first. If you want to add such an option, go
ahead, but I don't demand it.
Cheers,
Sven
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