Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 2001.02.14 13:03:36 +0400 David Hedbor wrote:
> > Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > David Hedbor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Thank you. I have one question though - why strip (any) libraries?
> > The
> > > > nice thing with Linux is that your libraries have debug symbols. If
> > > > you debug a program, this usually helps a lot when the bug is
> > > > triggered somewhere in system or third party libs. I certainly
> > > > understand the space savings issue, but it really does make
> > developing
> > > > on Mandrake a lot less convenient.
> > >
> > > ...space... most of the end-users don't debug programs...
> >
> > How about at least having core libraries (mainly the glibc package,
> > i.e libc, libm etc), and in the very least libpthreads, unstripped? I
> > know that having KDE, Gnome and god knows what unstripped most likely
> > would use up way to much space....
>
> What about glibc-debug (or libc, libm, ect...) packages then, as an
> alternative to standard glibc (libc, libm...) ?
That would be a great thing to have, yes. And I'd suggest the
"developer" install choice would use these per default.
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