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

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

John Goerzen, le Fri 26 Dec 2008 08:54:53 -0600, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > John Goerzen, le Thu 25 Dec 2008 12:04:43 -0600, a écrit :
> >> 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:
> >>
> >>   perforate
> > 
> > Nothing to do with this.
> 
> Eh?  It can do exactly what #284274 requests in fdupes below.  How is
> that not relevant?

Oh, sorry, I hadn't seen the
« Also there are some scripts that help cleaning up the hard disk »
I don't see why that belongs to the perforate package.

Samuel