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- From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.055744.26567@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:57:44 GMT
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- 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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