Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 02:04 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
>> Matt Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:46:13PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> >> The problem is with small systems. Your mips router, your arm pda and
>> >> so on. With a 256-512MB disk an 126MB databse is quite unacceptable.
>> >> Even now dpkg + apt meta data can make up half of the systems
>> >> diskspace.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure how feasible it will be to have a good database that
>> > meets the needs for both big systems and embedded systems. ipkg seems
>> > to be a sufficient package management solution for the extremely small
>> > systems...
>>
>> One problem is that you have a static and a dynamic part of meta data
>> for dpkg:
>>
> Note that the static part, at least from dpkg's point of view, is
> dropped with the new implementation.
>
> Scott
All of it? You do need one copy of Packages to keep apt-get
functionality, which could be the binary cache with its reduced size.
MfG
Goswin
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