[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

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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