On 23/09/10 14:55, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
I'd also like an answer to this. Why not do away with the individual directories? Locating the binaries even in a fairly large package will be fairly quick in any case.
It has been that way since 2005-03-15 with the initial commit in the git repo: http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/diff/scripts/makepkg?id=d04baabafa . Except then the path was hard-coded in makepkg. The configurable STRIP_DIRS came much later: http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=ae9e33ed
As to why... I have never thought about it other than it seems a waste to search /usr/share for binaries to strip.
Allan
