Re: redundant binaries

[Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>]

"dan" == dan  <dan@rn082110.mrs.umn.edu> writes:

dan> Is there a reason for having multiple copies of these files, and
dan> if not, is it worth tracking them all down and filing bug
dan> reports?

They aren't multiple copies, they're the same file with multiple
names.  UNIX calls this a "hardlink" and dpkg supports it.  (Faster, I
guess.)

Do a ls -i and you'll see that the redundant stuff in question have
the same inode number.

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