On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Robin Burchell <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Christopher Intemann > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well I just find it nice to download a single software package, e.g. on > the > > Nokia Booklet running MeeGo, and then later copy the same package to the > > N900 (which is also running MeeGo) and run it there. To make that > possible, > > there either has to be a Booklet based on ARM architecture, an rpm > carrying > > two platform specific versions of the software (e.g. ARM and Intel) or > > something like fatelf... > > Cheers, > > Chris > > The thing is, as the note of FatELF says themselves, that it will > require more space (to download & store), meaning you're pretty much > no better off than having downloaded it twice in the first place. And > again, considering that (for the *end user*, not people on this > list..) this is probably not going to be such a common use case - that > increased size is probably too much cost for little gain. > that is what apple do in their universal binary format. it benefits for end-user who do not know detail what their device running on arm or x86. for the hacker want to reduce size, they can strip it to normal architecture-dependent binary too. > > Robin Burchell > mob: +447702671419 > msn: [email protected] > irc: w00t @ irc.freenode.net > twr: http://twitter.com/w00teh > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers >
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