Re: Unstripped binaries, stripped at installation time?

[Jules Bean <jules@blueberry.jellybean.co.uk>]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:11:18AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
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>  Wouldn't it be better, to ease debugging, to ship unstripped `-ggdb'
>  compiled binaries, with a local option to strip them at install time?

I see your argument, but I suspect that you under-estimate the disk
usage issues. An unstripped package can be a case of a 2M package
becoming a 20M package --- not likely to be acceptable to your average 
modem user...

Jules