Subject: Re: [bug#29181] [PATCH 1/1] gnu: mesa: Use symlinks instead of hard links.

From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:15:04 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> This reduces the nar size (as shown by 'guix size') by 124 MiB, from
> 169 MiB to 45 MiB (almost divided by 4!).

Wow, nice catch.  If I read the code correctly, it detects hard links
and replaces them with symlinks.  Could we do this unconditionally in
a gnu-build-system phase?  Are there any legitimate uses of hard links
in outputs?

That said, the patch LGTM.