On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 20:25 +0100, GOMBAS Gabor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:54:27PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > > Correct. So, why not use mv? > > Add a new "--move" flag to dh_installfiles, come up with some exact > numbers showing the build time/disk usage savings for your favorite Big > Package (hard numbers usually very helpful for promoting new features), > and send the numbers together with the patch to the debhelper maintainer. > > Someone already mentioned that a complex package might want to install > the same file to multiple different locations, so making this the > default is probably not feasible.
How about hard linking with ln instead? You would have the best of both approaches: it is fast, and still possible to have the same file in multiple packages. Greetings, Oliver
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