Bug 2275
| Summary: | Use symlinks instead of copies of executables | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | mitr |
| Component: | emacs | Assignee: | Cristian Gafton <gafton> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-06-16 16:13:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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These suggestions have been forwarded to a developer for further consideration. those are hard links already, that take even less space than symlinks. |
The following executable files should be turned into symlinks to save space (I've checked that the binary image is the same, which isn't true for /bin/ls vs. /usr/bin/{,v}dir). Most notable is emacs-X11 package, where this saves almost 3 MB! Mirek -------------- ***egcs-1.0.3a-14 /usr/bin/egcs -> /usr/bin/i386-redhat-linux-egcs ***emacs-X11-20.3-3 /usr/bin/emacs -> /usr/bin/emacs-20.3 ***gawk-3.0.3-3 /bin/gawk -> /usr/bin/gawk-3.0.3 ***gzip-1.2.4-12 /bin/gunzip -> /bin/gzip /bin/zcat -> /bin/gzip /usr/bin/zdiff -> /usr/bin/zcat ***ld.so-1.9.5-8 /lib/ld.so -> /lib/ld.so.1.9.5 ***python-1.5.1-5 /usr/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python1.5