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applications: Ignore symlinks when measuring cache/data size

Diego Iván M.E requested to merge DiegoIvanME/gnome-control-center:diegoivanme/avoid-symlinks-file-size into main

Some applications have symlinks that point outside of their folder in their cache/data directories, leading to incorrect, slower measurements. Namely, Builder has a symlink that leads to the home directory in its cache folder, which also contains the Builder app directory, creating recursion and (very) wrong measurements.

By adding the FTW_PHYS flag to the function that traverses the directory and measures folder size, symlinks are ignored.

Closes #2375 (closed)

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