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Does uv have any plans for symlink/hardlink deduplication?



Not sure. The simplest solution is to store all files under a hashed name and sym/hardlink on a case to case basis. But some applications tend to behave weirdly with such files. Windows has its own implementation of symlinks and hardlinks. They simply call it something else. Perhaps portability could be an issue.


The article says it already hard links duplicates. But likely not able to help if you are using multiple versions of interpreter and lib.




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