On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just wrote a new Feature proposal for shipping minimal debug info by > default: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo > > The feature page lists some of the background and statistics. It also > lists some options in how to implement this, which all have various > different pros and cons. I'd like to hear what peoples opinions on these > are. > > My personal opinion is that we should go with compressed data, in the > original files without the line number information. This means we use > minimal space (i.e. an installation increase by only 0.5%) while being > completely transparent to users. It does however make the normal > packages larger in a non-optional way which some people disagree with. What sort of size impact are we talking about here, there's a lot of devices that people are starting to use Fedora on such as ARM devices that don't have a lot of storage space. One of the most widely deployed devices running Fedora for example is the OLPC XO-1 which only has 1gb of space so every size increase is a hit and Fedora is already starting to have quite a large muffin top to deal with. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
