how many megabytes are we saving by denying the enthusiast the ability that even the openWRT project included with opkg?
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rpm/dpkg??
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retarded_monkey -
January 28, 2019 at 7:20 AM -
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It's not about saving megabytes. Install script is very short. And it is not even required to exist in image itself because it can be downloaded when needed.
But there must exists /opt folder. And this one is the hardest issue! It is impossible to get it in LibreELEC
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It's more about how we provide support than anything else. Overlay filesystems (as used by some of the router distros) would make it possible to have /opt and install things to our read-only image but it's guaranteed that we periodically make changes that break things. Users will then blame us and/or expect us to restore compatibility and that's a level of maintenance and testing effort that we're not resourced for - we are considerably smaller than OpenWRT and all conventional distros. NB: We already support a reasonable range of apps via Kodi add-ons (and reasonable non-piracy requests for useful apps are often fulfilled) while Docker provides a more abstracted and sustainable way to handle "anything else" requirements. We have a long-term and happy partnership with the linuxserver.io team who maintain a repo of Kodi add-on containers that are proactively tested on LE.
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Docker should be put into the same context as Entware. So there should not be any extra support.
And both are for guys who know what they are doing and where to find a solution.
It's the same as with any Kodi addon. Usually in the case of bigger problems users are pointed to addon's maintainer.