Re: Static compiled packages option for apt

2025-06-26 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 08:57:42PM -0700, 1...@110110.net wrote: > > 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 complete

Re: Static compiled packages option for apt

2025-06-26 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 26/06/2025 04:57, 1...@110110.net wrote: 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

Re: Static compiled packages option for apt

2025-06-26 Thread Hakan Bayındır
On 6/26/25 6:57 AM, 1...@110110.net wrote: 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 70

Re: Static compiled packages option for apt

2025-06-25 Thread 153
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 !!

Re: Static compiled packages option for apt

2025-06-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:15:41 +0200, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote: >Disclaimer: I would not use such statically built binaries, as it goes against >what I am looking for in a software distribution like Debian. What this totally anonymous person (troll?) is asking for is a totally new distribution. I'd

Re: Static compiled packages option for apt

2025-06-21 Thread Antoine Le Gonidec
apt is probably not the best fit for that, as a lot of its codebase would be unused in the case of statically built binaries. I think you should rather work on a new packages manager (that could rely on apt libraries) with no dependencies management, that would allow it to be quicker than apt than

Re: Static compiled packages option for apt

2025-06-21 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 09:05:54AM -0700, 1...@110110.net wrote: through the fedora package manager Copy-paste error, nice. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Static compiled packages option for apt

2025-06-21 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
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

Static compiled packages option for apt

2025-06-21 Thread 153
I’d like Debian to; instead or give the option, to download statically compiled packages through the fedora package manager That way instead of downloading a ton of packages, they can download one binary compiled against server or maybe even hardened libraries A statically compiled binary in u