Rationale for hardlink in kernel postinstall scriplet

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer]

davej at redhat.com (Dave Jones) writes:
> intended.  It hardlinks all files that are identical to one copy.
> This saves a *lot* of diskspace, especially when you have several
> kernels installed.

Wouldn't it be doable to only modify files that are under directories owned
by kernel modules (ala don't touch any /lib/modules/* directories that aren't
in the rpm database)? We could match FC3 or rpm -qf /lib/modules/*

Thoughts?

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