On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 17:26, u34--- via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am I right the new -debug packages do not depend, pacman wise, on their > binary, non -debug packages? By that I mean pacman --upgrade somepkg-debug > will sucsseed even when somepkg is not installed. > Such dependency looks to me obvoius. Why was it decided not to have it? > Don't want to go "this distro does it too" but just like CentOS, if you ask for a debuginfo package, it doesn't imply that you want the binary upon which it is based. e.g. in Centos with debug repo enabled you can install bluez-debuginfo without having to install bluez. You can want to debug a trace without having to install the application and all its libraries etc
