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Re: Static compiled packages option for apt



On 26/06/2025 04:57, 153@110110.net wrote:
Basically even though theres a HUGE overhead when it comes to distributing static packages via apt, it can save time, bandwidth and cpu resources because.. yeah, I mean you’re only downloading one or two packages vs downloading up to 20 sometimes 700 packages at a time. This saves resources !! But yeah, there is a huge overhead when it comes to downloading statically packages, along with running the binaries.. along with redownloading if it fails.


i figure if OpenOffice, for example, has 700 dependencies, and instead of 700 different processes dedicated to downloading, a single process dedicated to downloading a large binary with all the dependencies compiled directly into the binary could in fact save bandwidth and possibly network resources, along with local and remote resources

I figure 80mb of a static package is just as good as 50mb of shared packages, maybe even more..

I'm not sure what problem you're trying to solve here. Is it apt and dpkg taking time to `apt upgrade`?

You can try apt's Merged Optimised Objects. But run the checker first.
$ apt moo check


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Regards,
Ahmad


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