On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 06:52 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can switch off the stripping by setting the nostrip variable in the > > FEATURES variable in /etc/make.conf. > > The problem with that is that it is global. Setting 'nostrip' is > something that is probably wanted on a per-package basis more often > than as a global option. I think that setting the 'debug' USE flag for > a package should, where this causes the package to generate debugging > info, automatically select 'nostrip' for that package.
In the odd case it may be needed what is wrong with: FEATURES="nostrip" emerge foo perhaps we need per package feature via an addition to /etc/portage - /etc/portage/package.features with a line like: app-misc/foo nostrip > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
