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[bug#29181] [PATCH 1/1] gnu: mesa: Use symlinks instead of hard links.
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Marius Bakke |
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[bug#29181] [PATCH 1/1] gnu: mesa: Use symlinks instead of hard links. |
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Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:15:04 +0100 |
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> This reduces the nar size (as shown by 'guix size') by 124 MiB, from
> 169 MiB to 45 MiB (almost divided by 4!).
Wow, nice catch. If I read the code correctly, it detects hard links
and replaces them with symlinks. Could we do this unconditionally in
a gnu-build-system phase? Are there any legitimate uses of hard links
in outputs?
That said, the patch LGTM.
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