Bug 428320

Summary:	app-misc/fdupes - Add the 'option to replace duplicates with hard links' patch from Debian
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Elias Probst <mail>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Shell Tools project <shell-tools>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	PATCH
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	http://bugs.debian.org/284274
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.