[arch-general] install packages using links?

[Andrei Thorp]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:31 AM, clemens
fischer<ino-news at spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> wrote:
> Andrei Thorp wrote:
>
>> Also, remaking all packages in the repos to do this?
>
> Where's the problem?  The symlinking can be done at leisure, on routine
> updates.  They are compatible.

Well, as far as I can tell, the problem is that this requires the
updating of the 4050 packages we have at the moment. All of them. By
hand. For rather limited gain.

And that's just in the official repos, not AUR, not Arch-games, not
archlinux.fr, so on.

-AT