linux-kernel - Re: FatELF patches...

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Date:	Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:27:55 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	icculus@...ulus.org
Cc:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, mans@...sr.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FatELF patches...

From: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@...ulus.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:21:47 -0500 (EST)

> That being said, there are lots of places where using a package 
> manager doesn't make sense:

Yeah like maybe, just maybe, in an embedded system where increasing
space costs like FatELF does makes even less sense.

I think Alan's arguments against FatELF were the most comprehensive
and detailed, and I haven't seem them refuted very well, if at all.
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