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 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
