We should run a program that dedupes files in /usr/share/doc, automaticallyq replacing identical files with hard links[0]. There are a number of these sorts of programs, "fdupes" being one that we have in Fedora. A quick calculation running "fdupes -r /usr/share/doc" on my Fedora 12 desktop machine, and some analysis: * 3484 files could be replaced by hard links (that count doesn't include the single remaining copy of the file). * Total files in /usr/share/doc is 31887, so that is 11% of all files in that directory. * Deduping would save 38896 (1K blocks) out of 473748 blocks used (about 8%). [1] By no means all the duplicates in /usr/share/doc are just license files. Many other types of file are also duplicated, including many images. Rich. [0] One day filesystems will do this for us automatically and transparently ... [1] Assumption: storing the directory entry and inode is free. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
