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Hardlinks exist, so you already have this problem. Tar has to keep track of inode numbers to recreate hard links for example.
by jhallenworld 4y ago
Hardlinks exist, so you already have this problem. Tar has to keep track of inode numbers to recreate hard links for example.
- shadowgovt 4y agoWhat I mean is that it's pretty SOP to have a package that installs a new command to work by installing to /opt/my-package and then symlinking /usr/bin/my-cmd to /opt/my-package/my-cmd. In the absence of symlinks, that link would be hard and dpkg et. al would have to do package management by deleting the /usr/bin/my-cmd link and re-creating it instead of letting it ride, trusting that it will point to the correct thing when the update completes because the target bin will have changed.