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

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Thursday 10 September 2009 13:06:03 Quim Gil wrote:
> ext Attila Csipa wrote:
> > To reiterate, my main concern is that it has been said that for various
> > (perfectly understandable) reasons, libraries are NOT to be optified.
>
> I haven't followed all the email from this thread but until yesterday
> libraries were thought to be good candidates for the /opt and actually
> specific examples for Python or Qt were given.

I was referring to this message (unless the current interpretation is that 
Python and Qt are not system libraries):

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:58:14 Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
> This was, of course, considered as well, but the problem is that
> concurrent I/O to/from the eMMC can (for reasons kernel guys know) cause
> high load in the system. Hence eMMC is avoided for system libraries and
> stuff, because it would cause a performance problem when these libraries
> are used and e.g. swap is active.  There are other technical problems
> with eMMC as well but it should work for this application use case
> pretty well.