[haiku-development] Re: Friendlier Optional Package installation
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:26:09 +0200
> Not sure how that would take less disk space (assuming as I am that the
> browser and interpreter are part of the basic package). The 100K or so
> overhead to the current ~5K of script/text is presumably unavoidable
> filesystem wastage. Would be about the same with the above scheme.
I doubt you'd reach 100K that fast. A link file is a single block so should
be 2048 bytes with the default ISO block size ?
>
> Also, it's static. It doesn't take account of added packages. My
> pilot only updates when installoptionalpackage is actually run, but
> it's aware of the updated OptionalPackageNames, so adds them to the list
> (though without appropriate descriptions of course).
True, but this isn't a package manager, just yet another temporary hack
before the real thing. That's why there are so much violent reactions on this
list : your web based thing may be nice, but it just reduces the need (and
motivation) for the real package manager. Rather work on that.
>
> And how would you handle those descriptions, whiich is the whole point
> of my idea?
File attributes and a properly configured Tracker view ?
--
Adrien.
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