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Bug 428320 - app-misc/fdupes - Add the 'option to replace duplicates with hard links' patch from Debian
Summary: app-misc/fdupes - Add the 'option to replace duplicates with hard links' patc...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement
Assignee: Gentoo Shell Tools project
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Keywords: PATCH
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Reported: 2012-07-27 14:26 UTC by Elias Probst
Modified: 2012-08-01 20:34 UTC (History)
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Description Elias Probst 2012-07-27 14:26:31 UTC 
Debian ships fdupes with a patch, which makes it possible to replace duplicates with hardlinks.

I'd love to see this patch also to be shipped by Gentoo.
Is it against any policies to add patches which add extra functionality to an ebuild?

See the report URL for the source.
Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-08-01 18:07:46 UTC 
So our policy is not s strict. Actually it depends on the maintainers will to maintain these patches.
I took a look at the debian report, but could find the corrected patch in their repositories. could you point me to it?
Comment 2 Elias Probst 2012-08-01 20:34:10 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> So our policy is not s strict. Actually it depends on the maintainers will
> to maintain these patches.
> I took a look at the debian report, but could find the corrected patch in
> their repositories. could you point me to it?

Well, me neither… weird.
As I found out, there are other tools in portage (e.g. app-arch/hardlink) which can do the same, I'll close this as WONTFIX.