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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:14:33 +0000
From: Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org>
To: "V.Krishn" <vkrishn4@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: suggesting feature, splitting pkgs repositories (part II)
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:08:31PM +0530, V.Krishn wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Would like to suggest moving -dbg pkgs in repositories into a separate
> 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 debugging.
> They are mostly development oriented.
> 2. Mirrors may opt to ignore these .dbg folder, thereby saving some disk
> space.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> V.Krishn

The question is if it is possible to move subpackages to a different
repository as the origin package.