On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 02:04 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Matt Wilson <msw@rpath.com> 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 -- Scott James Remnant scott@canonical.com
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