Re: Is --enable-single-binary=symlinks a problem for a distribution?

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 2020-08-27 10:11, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Thursday, August 27, 2020 1:53:56 AM CEST Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> For Fedora I created a coreutils-single package variant
>> (from the same source rpm), that one could install
>> in places where space was a consideration
>> (like embedded or container images etc.).
>> Since space is the main consideration, I also configured
>> --without-openssl --without-gmp for that package variant.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Pádraig
> 
> Worth to say that we do not use the `=symlinks` argument in Fedora,
> so it defaults to `--enable-single-binary=shebangs`.

Using symlinks should be okay, and maybe even slightly faster,
because the system doesn't have to read and evaluate the shebang.

AFAIR the shebang variant is for file system types which do not fully
support symlinks, right?

Have a nice day,
Berny