Simon J Mudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello All, > > I've been comparing some OpenPKG rpms against rpms from other RPM > distributions. One thing I hadn't noticed before is that (at least > with Postfix) the resultant binary packages are much larger than their > native equivalents[1]. This appears to be due to the fact that many > libraries are "mainly" statically rather than dynamically linked. Is > this intentional? > > This can make a large file/memory usage difference especially for long > running server processes which use multiple instances (apache?). > > Perhaps the issue is ensuring native libXXXX libraries do not > configure with OpenPKG installed equivalent libXXXX libraries?
Urggghh. Typo. Sorry conflict with .... > Is it possible to enable/disable this behaviour either at a package or > system level, and if not would it be interesting to be able to > configure this sort of functionality? Perhaps doing this generically > on different platforms makes this task much more difficult. Regards, Simon Mudd ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
