Re: optimizing PNGs
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> While digging into this, I also discovered that there are a number of
> duplicate files, that could be reduced using hard links[1] without much
> effort. For example, in case of activiz.net-doc[2] 2% of the files can
> be replaced by hard links. For vtk-doc[3] this amounts to 13% of the
> files. Other large documentation packages are likely affected in a
> similar way. The files typically affected are .svg and .map files. Even
> though this certainly hits small files, this can reduce the installation
> size measurably (for some filesystems).
In megaglest we replace duplicate files with symlinks using these commands:
# Replace duplicate files with symlinks
rdfind -outputname /dev/null -makesymlinks true debian/megaglest-data/
# Fix those symlinks to make them relative
symlinks -r -s -c debian/megaglest-data/
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bye,
pabs
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