[Buildroot] [RFC v4 00/16] Add per-package staging feature

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 22:49:12 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> On 2015-06-28 22:46 +0200, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
> > On 2015-06-28 21:42 +0200, Fabio Porcedda spake thusly:
> [--SNIP--]
> > > |  35GB |  99m | master branch
> > > |  37GB | 100m | patch set             
> > > | 153GB | 105m | patch set using hard links only for the toolchain sysroot
> > > | 225GB | 106m | patch set not using hardlinks at all
> [--SNIP--]
> >   - the size overhead is huge, a factor 4.4 with hardlinks, 6.5 without
> >     hardlinks
> 
> Oh wait, I read the wrong line...
> 
> OK, disregard my comments about the size overhead. It's only 2GiB, i.e.
> roughly 5%.

Yes, the size overhead is IMO very reasonable. So do you reconsider the
general opinion you gave in your previous e-mail?

Best regards,

Thomas
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