Why Not Use Packages?
You shouldn't use runtime packages unless you are sure that other applications will be using these packages. Otherwise, these packages will end up using more disk space than if you were to just compile the source code into your final executable. Why is this so? If you create a packaged application resulting in a code reduction from 200KB to roughly 30KB, it might seem like you've saved quite a bit of space. However, you still have to distribute your packages and possibly even the Vcl60.dcp package, which is roughly 2MB in size. You can see that this isn't quite the saving you had hoped for. Our point is that you should use packages to share code when that code will be used by multiple executables. Note that this only applies ...
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