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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: Multipurpose binaries with different names |
Date: | Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:17:40 -0500 (CDT) |
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
The reason to do symlinking is that some programs are large enough to warrant not compiling them again or have a double copy of it on the filesystem. The presence of /usr/bin/dir in system I would consider a waste of space, even if it's "just" 100K. Do that with something larger - inkscape/inkview seems to be such a candidate - and you quickly waste more space.
Several years ago they invented something called a "shared library" which may be used to reclaim this wasted space.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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