On 08/12/2015 05:02 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Joe Julian wrote: >> >>> It's been hashed and rehashed, but I need to bring this up again. Every >>> other popular distro has a way of debugging without completely >>> rebuilding a >>> package, saving countless combined hours. >>> >>> Why can't we just have a way of installing the symbols? >>> >> Not enough manpower... >> > There would be no more manpower needed than there is now. Set the debug > option to makepkg and put the debug package created in the debug repo. > I'll submit a feature request on the bugtracker. > > >> Allan has already added the features necessary to make this possible. >>> >>> Why is this so hard? What can I do to help make this a reality? >>> >> Well, there has to be a separate [debug] repo which (most importantly) >> must be >> kept in-sync with the main ones, or more packages in current repos. Then, >> someone has to actually build those packages. >> >> I would personally prefer that most packages come with debugging enabled >> by >> default. Surely, there will be a performance cost, but speed is not >> crucial in >> most cases. >> >> Cheers, >> > > There's no performance impact, just disk space and bandwidth. > Bandwidth is probably the main problem, although anyone who wants to debug will probably be fine with that.
