Re: Multipurpose binaries with different names

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> The reason to do symlinking is that some programs are large enough to
> warrant not compiling them again or have a double copy of it on the
> filesystem. The presence of /usr/bin/dir in system I would consider a
> waste of space, even if it's "just" 100K. Do that with something
> larger - inkscape/inkview seems to be such a candidate - and you
> quickly waste more space.

Several years ago they invented something called a "shared library" 
which may be used to reclaim this wasted space.

Bob
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