May 5, 2020
2:27 p.m.
On 2020-05-04, at 21:16:42, Philip Paeps wrote:
On 2020-05-05 11:00:18 (+0800), Andrew Gierth wrote:
Installing "backward" should create only links, and therefore have negligible effect on the size, the only real penalty being the extra directories and entries which should be only a few blocks at most.
It looks like we install the files rather than links. Or I've botched something on the test machine I looked at (which is not unlikely).
It varies. On Linux I see numerous symlinks. (Doesn't a symlink use a disk block?) On MacOS, I see neither symlinks nor multiple directory links, but many duplicate files. -- gil