Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > 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.
I didn't look closely, but I think it might need quite some changes to the code. It seems dh_install uses cp -a for directories, and you cannot use hard links with directories (at least not generally, here on my ext3 $HOME it does not work. And I suspect it could end in great mess). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
