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- Embed this notice@p @NEETzsche @mint Yeah Plan9 is in fact why I quite agree with having source as part of the binaries. And I'm not 100% sure but I think it would reduce the size of debug section if you could just refer to the source code.
And pain with always distributing source with binaries without any separation is with storage (and mirroring+bandwidth), it would means a lot more overhead on binary packages (and there's one per architecture for binary distros), so it makes sense to deduplicate it with arch-independent source packages.
What I guess could be done is more like requiring source to always be installed with binaries, kind of like dependencies are, meaning that like the CD-pack I have somewhere of some antique slackware would make me install from the sources CD first.