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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:47:35 +0100
Message-Id: <CPWX82NYPXJ6.1A1IT6T84Z1XQ@sumire>
Subject: Re: suggesting feature, splitting pkgs repositories (part II)
From: "alice" <alice@ayaya.dev>
To: <vkrishn4@gmail.com>, <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>
References: <3535e75e-f682-7435-a1f4-cd6d38180cfc@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3535e75e-f682-7435-a1f4-cd6d38180cfc@gmail.com>

On Thu Jan 19, 2023 at 6:38 PM CET, V.Krishn wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Would like to suggest moving -dbg pkgs in repositories into a separate=20
> folder. eg.
> main/aarch64.dbg or community/aarch64.dbg/
> OR
> main.dbg/aarch64 or community.dbg/aarch64
>
> Suggested change is desirable because:
> 1. Users who would want to install -dbg pkgs are willing to do=20
> debugging. They are mostly development oriented.

this is a downgrade because you now need to add more repositories to instal=
l
-dbg packages. this is, of course, assuming it's even possible to split
subpackages into another repository in the first place.

> 2. Mirrors may opt to ignore these .dbg folder, thereby saving some disk=
=20
> space.

they can already do this with excludes passed to the rsync command.


so, what is the benefit?

1) isn't one (more steps to install -dbg packages for users, no upside?)

2) is already true

...2a) the reason not every package has -dbg is because of master mirror sp=
ace
limitations- but how the folders are structured doesn't change the fact the
master mirror will have every -dbg package on it. the reason not everything=
 has
a -dbg is not related to third party mirrors whatsoever. of course, being
able to host packages on more than one master server is a separate engineer=
ing
problem, and would be nice for reasons not related to this proposal (and wo=
uld
also make it redundant anyway).

as far as i can see, this has *zero* practical upside, for any party involv=
ed:
the master mirror, third party mirrors, or users.

i guess you want this to have more -dbg packages (though you don't mention
that); getting those is not impacted by this extra repository layout at all=
.

>
> --
> Regards,
> V.Krishn