On 13/09/10 22:28, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On 9/13/2010 2:18 PM, David Greaves wrote:
On 13/09/10 21:58, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
if apps can depend on Extras being there, suddenly the OS size for the
device becomes much bigger. Not the amount present at ship time,
but the amount the OEM needs to reserve for the OS... because now that's
no longer as well known or bounded.
Isn't this the job of the installer tool ... calculate free disk(-ish)
and subtract size of pkg+dependencies?
That doesn't seem a much bigger problem than "calculate free
disk(-ish) and subtract size of pkg with no deps"
no it's the problem for the OEM, how much flash he needs to put on the
device for his customer to be able to install "100 appstore apps".
(where "100" is a random number I picked, but it's a number that
normally comes from the marketing dept).
if each of those 100 pulls in a bunch of stuff from Extras... suddenly
that's a very different number for the core OS
Err... that doesn't really make sense. The answer is the same either way. It's
just the poor dweeb that does the calculation now has to include the deps.
And even so... 100 appstore apps... what % of them have a full python install
they're carrying along? (Many apps in Maemo Extras are python apps). The chances
are the value is lower when you have Extras.
David
--
"Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."
_______________________________________________
MeeGo-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
