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 is given as so: > packages size bytes/package > ipkg total 378K > available 939 317K 388 > installed 147 61K 415 > dpkg total 10620K > available 15272 8660K 567 > installed 301 1860K 6180 You are comparing different things, pkg managment tool and the repostitory used with its contained data. The interesting data here is the bytes per package, and that will increase with later Debian releases as they include tag information, but nothing prevents the repos provided by maemo to be stripped down, for example removing the long description and keeping the short one (as Familiar is doing). regards, guillem _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
