Re: Stripping cygnus insight

[Torsten Landschoff <torsten@pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de>]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:54:18PM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> I've almost stripped insight-5.0 from accompanying libs and in a relatively
> clean way.  The package may be available anytime soon.
> 
> I'm working on stripping it because otherwise the package is undesirably
> huge. My question is however this: I want to strip the .orig.tar.gz, too.
> That is I want to make it smaller because I don't want unused sources to be
> uploaded. Is that okay? Stripping goes like this:
> rm -rf tcl tk itcl itk ...

Good question. I would say yes. How much space does that crap suck?

> This would OTOH make it impossible to build the orig.tar.gz without my
> patches. So this corrupts the semantics of 'orig.tar.gz'. What should I do?

Submit the patch upstream and ask if they can include it so one can build
the package with itcl, tcl, tk etc. already installed.

> BTW, is there any policy on trying to avoid statically linked binary
> packages?

Yes. Don't do it :)

If they are ready I will gladly check them and upload them for you *eg*

Thanks!

	Torsten