Re: F43 Change Proposal: Hardlink identical files in packages by default (self-contained)

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On neděle 27. července 2025 16:32:01, středoevropský letní čas Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'd rather we show extra care towards Fedora developers who are still
> > using Fedora, if there are any.  If we make Fedora development overly
> > complicated compared to working in a completely different environment or
> > distro, people may migrate (I'd argue that's not good for Fedora).
> >
> > On pátek 25. července 2025 20:01:14, středoevropský letní čas Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > > If you are modifying contents of /usr in-place on your running host
> > > system... you are taking your life in your hands. That's pretty much
> > > the largest foot-gun you can have. If you aren't debugging in a
> > > container or a virtual machine, but instead polluting your own primary
> > > operating environment, you have only yourself to blame when something
> > > goes horribly wrong.
> >
> > Yes, I agree that GNU/Linux power users should rule with with great power
> > and understand their responsibility.  The key is to understand what we are
> > doing and sometimes take calculated risks (but how, when I don't know what
> > I'm actually modifying).
> 
> But ... you *can* know? If you see that a file is hardlinked to
> multiple places (i.e. in `ls -l` output), then make a copy instead, if
> you're not sure if modifying the other copies is what you want.

I know I can.  But it'd be a way to complicate/obfuscate things.  But I
misunderstood the proposal before, I thought we are going to (via %post or
something) hardlink files across multiple installed RPMs.  Since this is
not the case, and hard-links can span only a single RPM payload, it seems
fine to me.

Sorry for the noise.  And I understand the reproducibility perspective.
Thank you,
Pavel



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