New Programs for Hardy?

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On Dec 11, 2007 2:03 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 02:53:44PM +0000, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> > On Dec 10, 2007 1:04 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > They are hardlinks, not duplicates (see 'ls -il'), and consume
> > > essentially no extra space.
> >
> > I see, hardlinks seems complicated, why not use symbolic links instead?
>
> Why does it matter? Hardlinks are fine as long as they're within the
> same directory.
>

There's also a tool called `cleanlinks` that removes dangling symbolic
links and empty directories,
I chroot to gutsy livecd and run this tool, so far it results to much
reduced files, but render some applications to
be unusable. I think cleanlinks should also be considered on the next release.

> > > I can only assume you mean /usr/share/doc here, but the default
> > > installation ships no .tar.gz files here, so I don't know what you're
> > > referring to.
> >
> > Yes, that is what I mean rather. I don't enjoy details too much,
>
> Details are the essence of development.
>

Sorry, my ADHD kicked there, Indeed, details are the essence of development.

> > it's something like .gz's files. My real point is there's many
> > duplicate files that can be linked together to acquire disk space.
>
> Yes; we have already started addressing this and will continue to do so.
>
> Cheers,
>

Ubuntu really excites us with every release, you guys are awesome!
Sorry to cause some trouble there :-)

Cheers.

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