[maemo-developers] Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 15:11 +0200, ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 14:07, Marius Vollmer<marius.vollmer at nokia.com> wrote:
> > ext Attila Csipa <maemo at csipa.in.rs> writes:
> >
> >> And, forgot to ask, is the 1GB size configurable, or is it hardcoded?
> >
> > It will be hardcoded, but I think it is still negotiable.  The partition
> > itself is actually 2 GB, but it is also used for the Meta Tracker
> > database and other things.
> >
> > What about making it 4 GB?  Would that feel big enough?
> 
> As it gets bigger, the usable space for a user's music collection gets
> smaller (AIUI). If the N900 is advertised as being 32GB, but then a
> user finds they can only store 25GB of music, they're going to be
> understandably upset.

Yes, could be too late to change the partition layout because of the
marketing etc. bullshit reasons. But that does not stop you from
repartitioning eMMC later (as long as the order of partitions remains
the same).

-Kimmo