[Hamara-devel] discussion about decreasing packaging overhead in debian

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Vikas Tara (2015-11-19 11:23:42)
> On 18/11/15 17:59, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Specifically for reducing metadata size, but I expect it to be one of 
>> the more difficult tasks and likely one of the less beneficial ones.
> It's potentially beneficial for hamara users, we are hearing a lot 
> about problems that users have with downloading packages or 
> installation medium.
>
> Thinking about people with low bandwidth has to be part of our focus - 
> I appreciate other distro's don't need to have this as their focus if 
> they appeal to users with easy access to broadband / fiber etc.

Please beware that the Debian list thread discussed above is about 
reducing *metadata*, not reducing package size in general. It affects 
only very _small_ packages - most packages in Debian won't be noticebly 
affected by optimizations in metadate size.

For deployment in areas with low bandwidth, what you should be looking 
at (and no doubt already do) iscarefully choosing lesser bloated set of 
packages to install.


> We will be looking to make hamara-sugam as lean as possible and 
> encourage people to create apt repos on portable media to help each 
> other keep up to date.

Custom APT repos has a high risk of spreading malware.

A safer option is to use a proxy - I use approx when in bandwidth 
limited - or even completely offline - environments.


 - Jonas

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