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

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

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:19:55 , Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On sunnuntai 17 helmikuu 2013, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> > Peter Slegg, 17.02.2013 19:05:26:
> >> I can't see many instances of situations were users would be running
> >> several apps that need the same lib so the memory used would not be
> >> important.
> >
> > Well, almost all would use the mintlib, no?
>
> Any normal GCC compiled app would use mintlib, and GUI ones would
> also use GEMlib.  That's 0.9MB + 0.2MB (for their *.a files
> in Sparemint).
>

So the memory usage of static versus the dynamic solution would be the
same and disk usage would be reduced (not a major issue).

The advantage would be that no would would have to rebuild all the
packages for all the variations everytime a lib is updated.

Peter
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