New optification issues in extras-testing

[Jeff Moe]

On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:07:36 Mohammed Hassan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 16:57 +0100, ext Tim Teulings wrote:
> > Hallo!
> >
> > > In sum, what is the upside of including anything but symlinks on the
> > > NAND? IMHO, it should punt everything to /opt as long as it is needed
> > > at all.
> > >
> > > Thanks for maemo-optify, it makes things sooooo much
> > > lazier^H^H...easier. :)
> >
> > Symlinks take space on disk, too. I'm not sure if they take a whole block
> > or a part of it but there is likely a limit where a links costs more
> > space than the data itself. Is this where the 2K come from?

I didn't check for sure, but I don't think symlinks take anywhere near 2k.

> Perhaps it's the time to symlink directories ? ;-)

ln -s /opt/etc /etc/opt

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCOPTCONFIGURATIONFILESFOROPT

But a bit OT.

-Jeff