Hi guys!

Then for old devices I should use "B2G_USERDATA_APPS=1" , Im still compiling 
for AOTF (Hamachi) and ZTE Open (Inari) and trying for Keon, so that devices 
have a small system partition and in LATAM we still use this devices.

Regards!

> Subject: Re: Building: What is (was?) the usecase for webapps on userdata     
> partition?
> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 09:07:35 -0800
> 
> On 11/13/2015 08:14 AM, Adam Farden wrote:
> > MDN currently states that when building Firefox OS the webapps are on
> > the userdata partition. For a long time I've been building
> > with B2G_SYSTEM_APPS=1 because I have large system partitions.
> > 
> > What is the purpose of having all webapps on userdata partition? Was it
> > necessary for old devices with small partitions, but is now generally
> > obsolete due to advances in storage size over the years?
> 
> Old devices didn't have enough space on the system partition to hold all
> the apps in eng mode (ie. all the testing apps). I don't think this is
> the case anymore for any device we care about.
> 
> > If it's something obsolete then I suggest we switch the logic so that
> > everything is on system partition as the default, older devices can
> > build with B2G_USERDATA_APPS=1
> > 
> > If there's still need for userdata webapps as the default I'd like to at
> > least update MDN to explain why.
> 
> I'm not opposed to changing that, but I'm surprised this is not the
> default for non engineering builds. I kind of remember that we changed
> that a while ago.
> 
>       Fabrice
> -- 
> Fabrice Desré
> b2g team
> Mozilla Corporation
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