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....
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