Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (102 mails)

[Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>]

* Marcus Rueckert <darix@xxxxxx> [2007-09-02 18:00]:
> but symlinks for anything else.

But using any automatism like %fdupes for symlinks is also a bad idea
IMO since the semantics of two files (or two hardlinks to the same
file) is different from the semantics of a file and a symlink.
Consider for example the difference when you delete the file and not
the symlink, or chmod, or something else.

Also (for hardlinks _and_ symlinks), what's if a program installs the
same configuration file in /etc and as documentation in
/usr/share/doc/packages. Initially, the contents is the same, but if
you modify the configuration in /etc, the sample configuration in
/usr/share/doc/packages should stay the same.


Thanks,
   Bernhard
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