Primarily intended for use by linux-mod-r1.eclass, which needs a global IUSE to control stripping of kernel modules *before* signatures and compression (alternative would be to simply never strip, but that seem sub-optimal).
Originally meant to be USE=modules-strip or similar, but this can have a more general use case when portage does not know how to strip special files properly while the ebuild does. Notable is mingw ebuilds (wine-*, dxvk, vkd3d-proton, mingw64-*). If portage uses x86_64-pc-linux-strip on, e.g. mingw64-toolchain's runtime libraries, then at least the 32bit toolchain ends up broken and cannot compile anything anymore. But then dostrip -x results in unstripped files while we can use x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip in the ebuild potentially saving 60MB+. Currently this is done through USE=debug, but does not feel fully fitting given this isn't about adding debugging paths (or even symbols, or anything) and is merely "do not strip". No USE in ::gentoo currently contain the word "strip" and defining it should not conflict. Signed-off-by: Ionen Wolkens <io...@gentoo.org> --- profiles/use.desc | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/profiles/use.desc b/profiles/use.desc index 47438c839071..aa5d16dd652e 100644 --- a/profiles/use.desc +++ b/profiles/use.desc @@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ ssl - Add support for SSL/TLS connections (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer startup-notification - Enable application startup event feedback mechanism static - !!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes binaries to be statically linked instead of dynamically static-libs - Build static versions of dynamic libraries as well +strip - Allow symbol stripping to be performed by the ebuild for special files subversion - Enable subversion (version control system) support suid - Enable setuid root program(s) svg - Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) -- 2.40.1
