From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) Subject: Re: A discipline for packages Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:57:44 GMT
pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>Actually, I was thinking of replacing them with hard links. But for now,
>I will probably just refrain from adding symlinks to the packages I
>put together.
ok, stupid question time.
why is a soft link that uses maybe an inode worse than a hard link that
uses real disk space, right ?
why mess with what the package author's obviously intended? Seems to me
you're taking a position that'll lead to you fixing something that isn't
broken...at the risk of considerable blood pressure.
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