Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > The idea behind having %license (and packages actually using it) is > that now we have the licenses identified and stored in a way that RPM > controls, instead of simply stored the same way that documentation is > stored. > > Making RPM do smarter things with those license files is now entirely > within the domain of RPM or perhaps some file triggers or even (ugh) a > cron job/timer/whatever. > > So, want to hardlink those files? Have a package with a file trigger > on /usr/share/licenses that runs /usr/sbin/hardlink. Instant space > savings, though you still have to spend the inodes. If that's not > enough, RPM could probably be taught to do practically anything.
If there were a common-licenses package, then perhaps RPMbuild could automatically compare files tagged with %license to those licenses, and replace matching files with a link and a dependency on common-licenses? That should also make the packages smaller, saving some download time and space on the mirrors. I can't take on any more work so the idea is free for the taking. Björn Persson
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