Thread: Optification confusion
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mikkov is offline mikkov
2009-12-22 , 22:40
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#5
Originally Posted by jebba View Post
maemo-optify will only do files greater than 2k, but this isn't so great in all cases. Asterisk, for example, has a jillion little sound files, so if it used maemo-optify, it would still write like 1M to /.
maemo-optify links the directory if the package name and directory name are the same. Usually works fine for applications which have only one package, but for multi package apps it's not so great.

Originally Posted by jebba View Post
Using maemo-optify in debian/rules doesn't use the /opt/maemo subdir, but using maemo-optify-deb does.
Hmm, using maemo-optify is rules and maemo-optfiy-deb should produce exactly same output. (And in my experience they do)