[Gllug] Getting technical about email

[Mike Brodbelt]

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:49:42AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
>> "Daniel P. Berrange" writes:
>>
>>> You want to be using Fedora really ;-P Just install the XXX-debuginfo
>>> sub-RPMs for the package in question & any libraries it uses which you're
>>> interested in. Then 'gdb' against the process in question will give
>>> you the full stack traces with no need to re-compile anything...
>> See, that's one of the reasons I'm still using Fedora. They get a lot
>> of things right, probably more than any other distribution.
> 
> One annoyance of Debian (there aren't that many) is their insistance
> on stripping executables and libraries before installation.  It's even
> policy[1].  Why?  To save valuable disk space on my 160 GB disk for
> more unread files in /usr/share/doc?

It can be irritating, but it saves space on disk and in memory, so is
reasonable. Why have debug symbols for the 99.9% of stuff you never
debug. It's not that hard to grab the source, comment out dh-strip, and
run dpkg-buildpackage over it.

Mike
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