On 3/2/07, Ken VanDine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By only shipping what is needed. Conary has such strong dep checking > and fine grained components. Basically, if a package only needs a > shared lib, conary will just include the libs not the runtime stuff. > So we end up with conary packages that look like this: > > libgnome=2.16.0-2-5 > libgnome:config=2.16.0-2-5 > libgnome:data=2.16.0-2-5 > libgnome:devel=2.16.0-2-5 > libgnome:devellib=2.16.0-2-5 > libgnome:doc=2.16.0-2-5 > libgnome:lib=2.16.0-2-5 > libgnome:locale=2.16.0-2-5 > libgnome:runtime=2.16.0-2-5 > > If only libgnome:lib and libgnome:data are required by dependency, the > others are excluded. Unless of course you want them, then you > explicitly add the whole package. The current LiveCD I am working on > is 420M. > > Our technology is really created to build appliances, which should > only require the bare minimum to make the application you care about > run. Very powerful stuff :)
Very impressive. I look forward to playing with the liveCD (none of my boxes have a working vmware kernel ATM.) Also, is there an application list? I seem to be able to figure out from rpath what you've removed, but not what you've added. Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
