[maemo-developers] FatELF Re: rpm vs. deb and "universal binaries/packages"

[From: Christopher Intemann]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Robin Burchell <viroteck at viroteck.net>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Christopher Intemann
> <intemann at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be thrilling to have this implemented in MeeGo?
> > http://icculus.org/fatelf/
>
> What does this actually gain, as opposed to using binaries compiled
> for the specific platform? The only tangible benefit I can see is the
> ability to port from one arch to another easily, but that's hardly
> something that regular users are going to be doing.
>
>
Well I just find it nice to download a single software package, e.g. on the
Nokia Booklet running MeeGo, and then later copy the same package to the
N900 (which is also running MeeGo) and run it there. To make that possible,
there either has to be a Booklet based on ARM architecture, an rpm carrying
two platform specific versions of the software (e.g. ARM and Intel) or
something like fatelf...
Cheers,
 Chris
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