Hardlinks in port images

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Thu Dec 13 08:31:44 PST 2012


On Dec 13, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Enrico Placci <e.placci at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to me the best solution would have just been to change the
> default settings (to direct + archived , so to not conflict with that
> broken backup system by default) and leave the choice to the users.

The way things work now is basically direct+archive mode (but better).

> and I thought one of the future objectives was to link against the
> libraries in the image rather than in the default path to enable
> having incompatible libraries installed at the same time.


I know jkh has said many times that he thinks that that is a good idea (I disagree) but as far as I know, no one has done any work to implement it.

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