On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:25:36 +0800 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:31:11 +0800 Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > > There're a lot of packages in archive which users are not expected to > > install, for examples: > > > > * all golang-*-dev packages. (currently there are 1k+) > > * maybe[1] all librust-*-dev packages. (currently there also are 1k+) > > I think that these packages are solely a workaround for apt/dpkg not > supporting the ability to build-depend on and use (parts of) another > source package. I think that therefore we should enhance apt/dpkg and > remove all the golang/rust binary packages instead. >
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. X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
