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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:55:45
Message-Id: 1133103021.21175.431.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?) by Dan Meltzer
1 On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 09:39 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote:
2 > On 11/27/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <flameeyes@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 00:10, Luca Barbato wrote:
4 > > > It's great!
5 > > > Make it a FEATURE default on for common profiles.
6 > > +1, and it would be better if the FEATURES, instead of removing the generated
7 > > files, would disable the building of them completely, mainly because "work"
8 > > systems with limited CPU, RAM and HDD space would probably prefer not having
9 > > to create and store them :)
10 >
11 > Err, maybe I am incorrect, but isn't it more "work" to ungenerate them
12 > (using strip) then to just not install them?
13
14 it's pretty easy to add a check to the save_elf_debug function to tell
15 it to return if we decide that FEATURES=splitdebug will be the default
16 and that if it's not set to simply return from the function without
17 doing anything.
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