On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 18:55 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > 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. See the feature page for detail on the space use. On my F17 desktop install with and 8 gigabytes /usr it would add 43 megabytes of data. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
