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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12.02.21 20:31, Paul Gilmartin via
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I notice, FWIW, that the MacOS distribution (at Mojave) contains no
symlinks; the files are entirely replicated. This needlessly expands
the DB by about 30% (MacOS nicely supports symlinks) and actually
removes information. The casual browser can not tell at a glance that
files are duplicated.
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<p><font face="monospace">Nobody should worry about these 30%, I
think, these days.</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">A lot more of space is wasted, everywhere.<br>
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<font face="monospace">On my Mac (Catalina) I find at least three
full copies of tzdb<br>
ls -l /var/db/timezone/tz<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 27 Okt 03:33 2020d.1.0<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 31 Jan 04:26 2020f.1.0<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 2 Feb 04:27 2021a.1.0</font><br>
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