On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:48:03PM +0100, Andy Green wrote: > What I do think to myself is: this is not an "embedded device". This is > a PC of a few years ago and the packageset complexity shows it. And we > barely got started with userspace packages we will offer. Yet somehow > we use an "embedded" chain whose natural output is a rootfs. The > package system is not comparable to .deb or RPM, I mention again the > - -devel issue. > Hmm, you must be confused, to turn an ipk into a deb mv blah.ipk blah.deb and to turn a deb into an ipk mv blah.deb blah.ipk.
So where is the package system deficient? Or do you mean we dont generate the right packages, well we do make -dev packages and people use them for on device development. Graeme
