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

[From: Robin Burchell]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Christopher Intemann
<intemann at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

The thing is, as the note of FatELF says themselves, that it will
require more space (to download & store), meaning you're pretty much
no better off than having downloaded it twice in the first place. And
again, considering that (for the *end user*, not people on this
list..) this is probably not going to be such a common use case - that
increased size is probably too much cost for little gain.

Robin Burchell
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