Re: RPM needs to go on a diet.

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On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:49 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

>Why are hardlinks chosen over symlinks here?
If you used symlinks, then when you removed a kernel, you migth end up
removing the only real copy of a file.  With hardlinks, you remove a
kernel, it'll only remove one instance of the file, and the others will
remain, until all kernels using that file are removed.

>
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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