On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:54:22 +0100
Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
I would love to see install banned, but I think it's
unpractical. Virtual all makefiles must be modified,
and that is going to be a lot of work for any distro
that chooses to uses sbase and what to have a lot of
package available for their users.
>
> -Anselm
>
Received on Fri Dec 02 2016 - 13:59:08 CET