On 15/04/13 05:24, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:14 PM, William Giokas <1007380@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> What I would propose (and I've implemented this locally fine) is to have >> a separate series of repositories named [$repo-debug] that only contain >> the -debug packages, allowing those that don't bother with testing or >> debugging to simply not include them in their pacman.conf, but if there >> is something that they want to run valgrind or whatever on, they can >> simply enable the right [*-debug] repo for that package, and once they >> are done debugging simply remove that repo from their list along with >> the package. For really large packages, this will save people a while >> lot of time recompiling dependencies for these symbols. > > Why do you suggest to use a different repository to debug packages > instead of pushing them directly to existing repositories. > Users will not suffers of having debug packages into main repositories. > I see difficulties in bandwidth needed to push package (for dev/tu) > and in storage space in all our mirror around the world. > Having a separate debug repository doesnt' address this. > It would make the repo dbs ~twice as large and pollute -Ss output for people who do not want to enable debug packages. Allan
