Re: [MiNT] Software packaging (was: opkg / coldmint)

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:20:42 , Miro Kropá?ek wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>wrote:
>
> > has anyone
> > considered an iterim solution of each program dynamically loading its own
> > copy of libs that are not shared in memory ?
> >
> Actually, this is really an easy task. a.out mint binaries (=libraries,
> too) contains all needed info for such thing. One would need to tweak
> binutils a little to not to link the libraries but to link a loader with a
> list of filenames to load instead.
>
> Anyway, this wont solve the packager problems. What we need is *any*
> packaging system and someone willing to maintain / build the packages.
> That's all. As soon as you've got autobuilds running, static/dynamic
> linking is not that important anymore.

Doesn't it make getting the autobuilder working a lot easier ?
I thought the whole issue was the dependencies ?

Peter