On Saturday 28 October 2006 08:20, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Majority is installing all on one machine anyway. It will be more work for maintainers as it will double number of packages
Not the number of .src.rpm packages.
What is the benefit that src.rpm number is not grown? You have to double number of installable packages.
and introduce few thousands opportunities to forget something when updating package.
You _do_ use a package manager, don't you?
Not to forget huge pile of existing packages that have to be changed,
I did not say everything has to be changed immediately. I think if this was done to the biggest packages first there would be enough gain. Folk at SUSE already politely explained that adding binaries for i686 will be too much for maintenance and distribution, in some previous thread. I don't
I talk about more spots that one can forget to update during package creation, not on the user side ie. installation, but yes, it can be automated once packages are reconfigured. It will require changes in package management client software too. think they will see splitting packages as smaller burden.
tested to make sure that they all work.
The /etc and preinstalled /var are not that big and savings will be minor comparing to effort.
The idea is that I would not need to install kde3U (/opt/kde3=250 MB, YMMV) and OpenOfficeU (most likely just as much) on every client and instead devote that space to something else.
-`J'
Maybe I see different scenario than you, but I don't see any problem to use NFS to export /usr, /opt to multiple clients. I don't use this configuration so I don't know how that would work in a practice, but if multiple users can use one /usr and one /opt in common, single machine configuration it should work with distributed clients too. The installation time problem where installer program will try to install all on one machine is probably easier to solve with classic means, like installing and configuring hardware, than removing all that you don't need after installation, or if you have more machines of the same kind, install on one and than make plain copies to others, etc. If you have something like 32 and 64 mix in the network, than you can have 2 servers, or single one with two sets of unchangeable directories. Remain directories that are not really big can be kept locally. Am I missing something? -- Regards, Rajko M. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org