wonder about the footprint

Posted Nov 19, 2024 8:04 UTC (Tue) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)
In reply to: wonder about the footprint by MKesper
Parent article: A new package manager for OpenWrt

> A package manager is used to install additional tools, too. It's impractical to create a whole new image just for adding / removing one package.

If your system is space constrained *so much* that you begin to worry about the footprint of a *package manager*, this means you're far beyond the point where it would be feasible to install packages into the uncompressed partition.

In other words: if you don't have enough space for a better package manager, you sure as hell don't have enough space for any packages in the uncompressed partition. Any new packages would have to go into the squashfs.

wonder about the footprint

Posted Jan 8, 2025 15:33 UTC (Wed) by parametricpoly (subscriber, #143903) [Link]

Currently on devices with small amount of flash can't even store the package lists. Those are stored on RAM until reboot. It kind of works, but tells how tight the space is.