On Mon 2020-01-20 14:31:36 +0000, Ximin Luo wrote: > This doesn't work for Rust unfortunately, due to features. Based on > which feature-set is activated, when you depend on a source-package > you would want to pull in different sets of transitive dependencies. > > However, a combination of: > > 1. implicitly being able to install source packages into /usr/src > 2. metadata-only binary Packages that can depend on these implicit source > packages > > would work.
These metadata-only binary packages would still consume the shared
resources that people have been complaining about.
So I think this approach would still need some sort of specialized
section of the archive to avoid bloating the package lists for people
who aren't interested in being developers.
--dkg
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