ideas about trying to avoid uploading deps available from Debian

Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/data/asdf.lisp b/src/data/asdf.lisp
index e797994..08165b9 100644
--- a/src/data/asdf.lisp
+++ b/src/data/asdf.lisp
@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@
 
 (in-package :consfigurator.data.asdf)
 
+;; could we have both :asdf-monolithic and :asdf-something_else where in the
+;; latter we filter out the names of systems already known to be available on
+;; the remote side, so those don't need to be uploaded?  for example, the
+;; :debian-sbcl connection type can try to install them with apt on the remote
+;; side, then ask asdf for a concatenated source for everything excluding
+;; those.  if asdf can't be asked to do that, maybe we can ask it to produce
+;; one file per system, and then we eliminate those we don't want and
+;; concatenate the result ourselves.  maybe we can create a fake system object
+;; based on the real one, remove some deps from it according to a known
+;; mapping of systems to Debian package names, then ask asdf to concatenate
+;; that system
+
 (defmethod register-data-source ((type (eql :asdf)) &key)
   (cons #'asdf-data-source-check #'get-path-to-concatenated-system))