Hi, On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:22:48 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis: > > > Since we allow for debug symbols using :debug (great feature!), Aha? Why's that not available in our icecat package? I have to find out how it's done elsewhere and copy it :) > You can always get the right source code by running “guix build -S > package”. > > OTOH having the source directly in the “debug” (or “source”?) output as > you suggest would be more convenient. > > The only downside is the extra size of the “debug” output. Most of the > time that’s a price people are happy to pay when they are installing the > “debug” output. But sometimes maybe not. Ahhh that's a difficult call. I think it would be best if we collected some statistics before we decided that. For example how big is the source code of a package versus the binary? On average? Depending on the language? How many % of the total size is the source code?
