Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:02:08AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> 
> > > Hmm...I can't recall right now why we chose to not strip it.  You
> > > could always give it a go and see what happens.  I'll dig through
> > > some old notes and see if I can come up with an answer as to why
> > > we did that.  I seem to recall that it had to be unstripped when
> > > our toolchain wasn't as mature, but I'm not sure.
> 
> > Well, running programs and compiling stuff seems to work (at least I
> > got a few gccs bootstrapped). I havend yet tried whether it confuses
> > gdb or so...
> 
> Is there any reason I shouldn't strip the alpha deb?  If you're able
> to boot and run, then I'm inclined to just do it.  Lemme know, I'm
> doing another upload tonight.

I'd say strip it. It works for me, and otherwise lots of people like
me with small root partitions will get into trouble.

-- 
        Falk


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