Re: Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> 
>  Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and replaces
>  them with hardlinks.
>  .
>  The idea has been taken from http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/, but the
>  code has been written from scratch and licensed under the MIT license.

Do we really need another tool like this?

We already have these packages:

  fdupes
  perforate

Plus a host of tools that do backups, datapacker that packs things onto
DVDs, and the like, using hard links.