Thread: N900 - Issues surrounding full root partition (No space left on device)
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2009-10-28 , 17:28
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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Which is why the conclusion at the BOF was that the buildbot would run maemo-optify on everything at some point in the future, unless the developer specifically told it not to, or the package already installed into /opt.
Meh, every package over x kilobytes, maybe... If the package has only 20kb in 10 shell scripts, it seems to me the introduction of 10 fragile symlinks is more risky than leaving 20kb of text files in /usr ...

Originally Posted by Rushmore View Post
A concern though is does this mean significant rewrites of current apps, rather than the great and "quick" ports of current apps we were expecting?

A lot of great apps already on Maemo and Linux. Shame if this becomes an obstacle to proliferation of apps to Maemo 5.
Too late for "great and quick" ports of current apps. The Fremantle UI is radically different from desktop Linux, and quite a bit different from Diablo, too, so "quick" ports of desktop apps are almost certainly going to look and behave terribly on the N900 without significant UI rewrites. Diablo apps are also going to be a bit ugly in many cases.
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