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Tapio Kelloniemi wrote:

> Hi all

Hi Tapio,

> There are many package managers which use symbolic links to track
> which files belong to which package. I have thought of a similar
> approach but with hard links instead. 
> [...]
> ; and what other problems might exist?

There is the problem, that you can't have /usr/src on a different
partition - which is sometimes wanted. You would have to split it into
/src /usr/src /opt/src a.s.o, and if a package wants to put files in
/usr _and_ /etc you can't hardlink every file...

- --
Philipp T�lke

If today was your last day, who would you call, what would you say,
and what are you waiting for?  -- Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
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