1,440 symbolic links
Reini Urban
rurban@x-ray.at
Wed Nov 17 16:10:00 GMT 2004
Dick Repasky schrieb:
>
> The tree /etc/X11/xserver contains 720 symbolic links. The vast majority
> of of them are locale specific and point to the directory
> /etc/X11/xserver/C. The only thing in /etc/X11/xserver/C is a tree called
> print.
>
> The tree /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver seems to be identical to
> /etc/X11/xserver.
>
> My question is: can I get rid of all those symbolic links? The reason
> that I ask is that I'm using Fergus' instructions for building a CD from
> which cygwin can be run
> (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01117.html). Because
> ISO-9660 file system does not support symbolic links, the technique for
> handling them is to create copies of everything that is symbolically
> linked.
You got that wrong. the above cited msg is right.
ISO-9660 does understand cygwin .lnk files (which are symlinks), just
the +S attribute has to be fixed. See Step 5 in
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01117.html
> For /etc/X11/xserver that means about 998 MB of disk on an ntfs
> file system with a respectable blocking factor. /usr/X11R6/lib/xserver
> also takes up that much space. My hope is that X has a respectable
> default, something like if localization file can't be read, use
> /etc/X11/xserver/C (or /usr/X11R6/lib/xserver/C). Or, maybe
> /etc/X11/xserver/C/print really is for printing (the tree seems to
> contain printer specs), and if I don't want to print, I can get rid of
> it all.
>
> I've tried poking around at X.org, but can't seem to find documenation
> tha's appropriate. I'd be grateful for any of the following:
>
> - simple answer such as "delete with impunity - it doesn't matter"
> - point me to appropriate documentation
> - point me to appropriate sections of the source code.
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
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