Symlink mods to output directories from a common mod storage

[JustSimplyKyle]

Profile 1 (quilt, 1.18.2):

• iris(from modrinth)
• sodium(from modrinth)
• enhanced block entities

Profile 2 (fabric, 1.18.2):

• iris(from modrinth)
• sodium(from modrinth)
• c2me

I hope that if the two profiles have identical mods, ferium will automatically symlink them from the same file.
Even if the modloader profile settings are not the same, if the mod is the same they should be symlinked.

[theRookieCoder]

I really like this idea! It's basically how pnpm works actually.

[JustSimplyKyle]

I got the idea from xmcl(x-minecraft-laucher)!

[noahdotpy]

You could probably have a hash in the mod's file name that is generated from the version of the mod, modloader, minecraft version and the ID or something like this.
Now whenever ferium is downloading a mod you could check if there is already a file with the same hash and simply symlink.
I feel like this could also save on disk storage space.

This is an awesome idea!

[theRookieCoder]

Firstly this directly conflicts with #140, and it also provides no benefit over using the hash of the files' contents.

[noahdotpy]

If you regularly switch profiles then the mods could be stored in this store instead of constantly re-downloading possibly 100s of megabytes of mod files each and every time you want to switch profiles.

[theRookieCoder]

You could probably have a hash in the mod's file name that is generated from the version of the mod, modloader, minecraft version and the ID or something like this.

I was referring to this in my comment.