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

[From: Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente]

2005/11/7, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com>:
> "ext Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente" <jsmanrique at gmail.com> writes:
>
> 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.
>

Ok, ok.. I was talking about storage size.

> 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...

I am not sure, but isn't ipkg smaller than dpkg-apt, doing same things
(more or less)?

Thanks and best regards,
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