On Thursday 26 January 2006 14:51, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 26 January 2006 05:43, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > Another candidate would be the strip binary which might be called
> > by certain makefiles instead of being portage controlled.
>
> packages should never strip, only portage should

ebuilds don't, some makefiles do. Sometimes when calling the strip option of 
install. A strip wrapper prevents this broken behaviour once and for all. It 
could even be written to show a big fat warning.

Paul

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