[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] The future of the Application installer

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente" <jsmanrique at gmail.com> writes:

> I am not sure if all the power of dpkg+apt would fit well in an
> embedded system like the Nokia 770.

It don't regard the 770 as an embedded system.  Once you talk about
installing arbitrary software on a system, it is no longer embedded,
regardless of how limited its resources are.  It is also quite
resourceful actually.  I think there is a lot to be said about using
the 'real thing' when you can.  I think we can use dpkg+apt
resourcewise, so we should.

> What about using the power of the ipkg software used in Familiar
> distro[1] that is even compatible with .deb packages?

Yes, I know about it and at one time, I actually had a ipkg-based
maemo repository (as a quick and dirty hack, nothing polished), so I
know it works.  But I didn't actually see any big advantage...