On Monday 08 December 2008, Esben Stien wrote: > John Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > opkg is obviously not very efficient, both in memory and in speed > > I don't care much about opkg since I use debian, but is there some > rationale for developing a new package management system that I can > read?
It's not exactly new. ipkg was developed for linux on iPaq because dpkg/apt was thought to be too resource hungry for such a constrained device. If you look at the workarounds applied to fit debian into NAND on the Freerunner you will see why. Purging package metadata comes just after purging unnecessary locales in the space saving measures. opkg is a contnuation of ipkg which IIRC stopped being maintained. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community