Matthew Allum writes:
Surely this isn't a fair comparison as the packages in Debian 2.2
arn't 'tuned' to embedded use ( i.e include docs, .la files etc etc ).
You'd be better comparing udebs that make up D-I or something.
I'm only talking about the overhead of the package manager, not the
Hi;
On 11/29/05, Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Allum writes:
Surely this isn't a fair comparison as the packages in Debian 2.2
arn't 'tuned' to embedded use ( i.e include docs, .la files etc etc ).
You'd be better comparing udebs that make up D-I or something.
I'm
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Zeeshan Ali wrote:
Repeat after me: the 770 is not an embedded system. It is a small
computer with neither a qwerty keyboard nor a big hard drive, nor a
really fast processor.
You are kidding, right? Anything is an embedded system if it:
2005/11/29, Matthew Allum [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
the 770 is not an embedded system - OK :) You understand my point
though - we could argue all week on if my digitial watch for example
was a small computer or an embedded system.
And that wouldn't resolve the real issues with the device which are
Hi,
Matthew Allum wrote:
Somebody writes something new that kicks arse and addresses the issues
with dpkg and ipkg.
that would be a solution, but open source software has a one big advantage:
It can be improved to avoid rewriting something from the scratch.
We should consider to make use of
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:46:23PM -0500, ext Russell Nelson wrote:
Instead of tossing out opinions, let's look at some numbers.
I have Debian 2.2 on a server and Familiar 6.2 on a handheld. Since
we're talking about using either dpkg or ipkg on a jffs2 filesystem,
all space consumption
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Kalle Vahlman wrote:
2005/11/29, Matthew Allum [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
the 770 is not an embedded system - OK :) You understand my point
though - we could argue all week on if my digitial watch for example
was a small computer or an embedded system.
2005/11/29, Koen Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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Kalle Vahlman wrote:
So we are talking about changing a rarely used utility to save less
than one percent of the flash space? With modifications to who knows
what amount of the packages included?
I
Kalle Vahlman wrote:
Build environment as in the Maemo and packages as in the existing
dbus/ dir contents (bad wording, sorry). If you need to port all of
Maemo to a new pkg management just to use ipkg, well...
Granted, you need to recreate the packages for AI currently too so
perhaps it's
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Tomas Frydrych wrote:
Kalle Vahlman wrote:
Build environment as in the Maemo and packages as in the existing
dbus/ dir contents (bad wording, sorry). If you need to port all of
Maemo to a new pkg management just to use ipkg, well...
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