Hard links
Some packages use hard links to provide different names for single
executable. I think this practice is at least questionable:
- It's hard to notice hard links, they look exactly like normal files
(AFAIK, there are no tools exept ls -li and find -inum). Many programs
support symbolic links, including web/ftp servers.
- It's easy to make mistakes when copying (for example, over NFS/SMB).
Suddenly you have less disk space than before and no clue what happened.
While this can happen with symlinks, it's probably less likely.
Should some text be appended to Policy, discouraging (or even forbidding?)
hard link use?
-Topi
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