Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 18:33:03 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: gecko@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 257140] mail/thunderbird and www/firefox install two identical executables Message-ID: <bug-257140-21738-8zJ4lVOMuT@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-257140-21738@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-257140-21738@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D257140 --- Comment #6 from Mikhail Teterin <mi@FreeBSD.org> --- (In reply to Christoph Moench-Tegeder from comment #5) > pkg doesn't really support hard links. Huh? There are NUMEROUS multi-link files under $PREFIX, installed by differ= ent packages, including git, llvm, and portupgrade. Moreover, man-pages have be= en installed as hard-links for DECADES, including man-pages of the ports. Try: find /usr/local -type f -not -links 1 libexec/git-core/git, in particular, has 138 hardlinks here! > further thinking: do we even guarantee a file system with hard link suppo= rt? I suppose, if one were to host $PREFIX on FAT floppy, things might break, y= eah. But then, he wouldn't be able to install git either -- and thus, have no /usr/ports to begin with :-) > Think NFS - that's a whole can of worms on it's own NFS certainly supports hardlinks and has since its earliest versions. > we're talking about a few hundred kB in a 200MB install size port The actual gain is not relevant. But this is the attitude, which explains w= hy, despite enormous progress of the hardware, the "computing experience" is lacking, and gigabytes are becoming necessary, where megabytes were suffici= ent earlier. > I'm not going to spent any more time than this note on that. Thank you, that's a comforting promise, actually. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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