[maemo-developers] compatibility vs speed and bloat Re: [maemo-developers] gtk+ builtin stock icons removed

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

> I know this is pretty bold comment from me but if you think 30KB is
> enough to break compatibility, why not to use uClibc instead of glibc or
> ipkg packaging system from Familiar instead of full dpkg and .deb?

Package database and tools don't consume RAM.


> I know Familiar distribution used ipkg because full dpkg was overkill
> and used glibc mainly for better compatibility with other arm/debian
> based devices but if Maemo is different anyway and don't care about
> compatibility why not to try uclibc?

uClibc is not binary compatible to Debian.  Glibc and the Maemo Gtk
are both.  You can for example take Debian ARM strace binary directly
from debian repo and copy it to the device and it works...

Maemo is only visually "incompatible" to Gtk.  :-)
(different themes, theme-engine, and now also icons)


	- Eero

Ps. If you look closely at the product file system, you'll notice that
the product uses both glibc and uclibc (not at the same time though :)).