On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote: > While digging into this, I also discovered that there are a number of > duplicate files, that could be reduced using hard links[1] without much > effort. For example, in case of activiz.net-doc[2] 2% of the files can > be replaced by hard links. For vtk-doc[3] this amounts to 13% of the > files. Other large documentation packages are likely affected in a > similar way. The files typically affected are .svg and .map files. Even > though this certainly hits small files, this can reduce the installation > size measurably (for some filesystems).
In megaglest we replace duplicate files with symlinks using these commands: # Replace duplicate files with symlinks rdfind -outputname /dev/null -makesymlinks true debian/megaglest-data/ # Fix those symlinks to make them relative symlinks -r -s -c debian/megaglest-data/ -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6getsrggr9ydrdwver97ziksnbgyv3zujy-6ugmqyz...@mail.gmail.com