Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932273AbZKBT4g (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:56:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932251AbZKBT4f (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:56:35 -0500 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:44951 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932262AbZKBT4e (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:56:34 -0500 From: Krzysztof Halasa To: david@lang.hm Cc: Alan Cox , "Ryan C. Gordon" , =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5ns_Rullg=C3=A5rd?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FatELF patches... References: <1257103201.2865.6.camel@chumley> <20091102000147.424f104b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20091102091611.60dfeea1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:56:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:39:55 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1445 Lines: 35 david@lang.hm writes: > fo any individual user it will alsays be a larger download, but if you > have to support more than one architecture (even 32 bit vs 64 bit x86) > it may be smaller to have one fat package than to have two 'normal' > packages. In terms on disk space on distro TFTP servers only. You'll need to transfer more, both from user's and distro's POV (obviously). This one simple fact alone is more than enough to forget the FatELF. Disk space on FTP servers is cheap (though maybe not so on 32 GB SSDs and certainly not on 16 MB NOR flash chips). Bandwidth is expensive. And it doesn't seem to be going to change. FatELF means you have to compile for many archs. Do you even have the necessary compilers? Extra time and disk space used for what, to solve a non-problem? > yes, the package manager could handle this by splitting the package up > into more pieces, with some of the pieces being arch independant, but > that also adds complexity. Even without splitting, separate per-arch packages are a clear win. I'm surprised this idea made it here. It certainly has merit for installation medium, but it's called directory tree and/or .tar or .zip there. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/