On Wed, 30 May 2012, "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
The reason why they're separate packages, and not installed by default, is because they're a non-negligible increase in size. To take an example at random: [...] Hmm, now we're up to 44% -- nearly half! -- of the space being used by debugging symbols. OK, what about the whole of Debian?
10 years ago a 40G hard drive was considered big. Now SSD is the storage form which has size limits, and you can cheaply and easily get 200G or more of SSD. 44% increase in disk space is something that most people should be able to afford. But the ability to download symbol tables at debug time from the cloud sounds like a better option for permanently connected systems. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/