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

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Florian Boor" <florian.boor at kernelconcepts.de> writes:

> Independend from the definition of [embedded] it is a fact that the
> 770 is a device with limited storage resources and that's exactly
> what ipkg was made for.

Well, excuse me for being purposefully dense here, but isn't every
device 'limited' in the end? :-) The question is just "Is it big
enough to support dpkg+apt, or isn't it?"  I think the 770 is big
enough.  Using dpkg-apt is the low risk route for me.  Optimizing can
come later, if needed.

(Yeah, I know, the whole computing world would be so much better if
people wouldn't be so wasteful with hardware resources, but hardware
is still advancing so fast that there is no time to spend optimizing
old shit while the new hardware already begs to implement the new
shit. :-) Once the hardware explosion stops, I'm sure people will
start optimizing...)

> It might be interesting to compare the memory footprint of ipkg+data
> with apt+data.

Yes, definitely.