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.. It fails when it comes to upgrading packages, since the shared library model is kind of the defacto standard of open source linux, and you’d have to sadly download the entire static binary and risk data loss principles instead of a single library to update a part of a program.. I don’t know, I tried to make an equation but it didn’t work out lol I personally think debian doesn’t distribute static packages because it takes up a ton of hard drive space and cpu ram to run a statically compiled program I think, seeing as the os copies binary data into the stack/heap, and yeah, there is a ton of users that use debian on old computing devices I personally would like debian to research a version of debian for high performance computers, or at least a fork of debian optimized for high performance computers; ready to occupy large sets of ram, hd space, and completely utilize new technology in x86 family processors Made after 2020 or so; where large sets of ram (64gb+) can just be occupied up to 35% for performance reason, such as caching and hopefully occupy high performance code And yeah within this month ill try to fork apt and make a patch for the src command, and possibly with the help of ldap and store it on some kind of local server (I guess rsync or nfs would be used?) But Id prefer if someone else did because im super taxed at work at the moment Oh man, not to act all crazy but, could you and the debian team talk about ldap integration at debian? (Or debian.org lol imagine getting a debian.org domain setup on your network haha) > On Jun 21, 2025, at 10:13 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig <umlae...@debian.org> wrote: > > Am 21. Juni 2025 18:05:54 MESZ schrieb 1...@110110.net: >> I *think* it might be able to save a significant amount of bandwidth >> distributing stuff like apache or even OpenOffice in static form >> > > why do you think so? > (and why do you think, Debian does not do this?) > > > mfh.her.fsr > IOhannes
