On 15/04/13 19:46, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > On 15 April 2013 09:59, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Separate debug repositories won't happen - we can't even put >> split packages into different repositories > > Fair enough. > >> Even if >> the db sizes double, we are still way under 5MB per db, which is a >> reasonable size considering our users' bandwidth nowadays. > > It's not only the size of the database. I can see the problem with the > size of repositories if someone keeps a mirror to save bandwidth if > they have lots of computers, but they don't need debug packages. > > > On 15 April 2013 10:11, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> DB size is not the only consideration. For example -Ss output will be >> "polluted". > > Maybe it could be filtered on the pacman side, ie. add some switch > that would enable/disable showing of -debug packages. > Not keen on that... The issues that prevent split packages going across repos are entirely different to what is required to keep a separate debug package repo. In fact, I will provide the needed patches for a separate [debug] and [community-debug] repo if that is what is decided to happen. Allan
