Re: [hackers] [sbase] [PATCH] xinstall: Fix broken memmove with -t

From: Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:54:22 +0100

Hi there,

On 2 December 2016 at 13:34, Mattias Andrée <maandree_AT_kth.se> wrote:
> If it's actually need, the package could call strip on
> the binaries that fail, or the developer can call strip
> explicitly. If it's even possible symbols could be problem,
> it's so rare that it wouldn't be much of a headache to
> deal with.

IMHO install has always been a bad idea and a good example of
violating the Unix philosophy. Hence my suggestion would be to ban it
completely from sbase.

-Anselm
Received on Fri Dec 02 2016 - 13:54:22 CET