Thread: Why is devel so dangerous?!
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2010-03-31 , 14:34
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#29
Originally Posted by hqh View Post
"Bricking" hardly ever happens (and you can always reflash) but ignoring the warnings is the main reason why the forum is full of "Why can't I install the update!? Nokia sucks!11" posts appearing after every system update release... Resulting from package/dependency conflicts and many devel-packages consuming too much rootfs space.
Well, attempting to free up rootfs space using a script attached to a maemo.org HOWTO led to my browser not working. Trying to fix the browser led to my device being bricked, as in caught in a reboot loop. Bricking does happen, and a full rootfs partition seems to be the most common reason for that.

The most common reason for a full rootfs is installing packages, and most of the packages that take a lot of rootfs space, are in extras-devel.

Actually, most of any kind of packages are in extras-devel. This includes useful, stable packages that just haven't been voted up yet, and updates to packages that have been voted up but not yet updated.