Re: special mime handling

[Maximillian Murphy <maximillian murphy gmail com>]

Package handling to me demonstrates the joys of having a file system
that permits multiple (and ideally to all intents and purposes
arbitrarily many) hard links to a given file.


Every time I install a package the new package contains hard links to
prerequisite packages.  As long as a package is required by others it
has at least one hard link pointing to it, so it won't be deleted.  It
does most but not all of the work required to keep my list of packages
to a minimum.


A soft link is a reference.  A hard link is a raison l'existence.


My twopennyworth.


Regards, Max