On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 12:34 -0500, Alec wrote:
> Part of me is torn here.  Having debuging enabled on GRP and stages 
> sounds like a great idea in theory.  I guess the deal is how much the 
> users are going to complain when they find out that all their programs 
> are built with debugging symbols?  Granted it's not a problem for me 
> personally because I build from stage1 all the time, so I'll gladly 
> remove the FEATURE, but some people are installing gentoo on small 
> drives.  How much extra space does debugging info take up on a system, 
> or on the LiveCD?

No chance in hell...

We're already looking for ways to decrease the disk space used by both a
LiveCD and GRP, so we can do more elaborate things.  If any form of
debugging became a "default" for Gentoo, we would probably have to turn
it off, or start looking for a LOT more mirror space.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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