Re: compiling for non-factory

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Mark Blunier said:
> Previousl Steven Pritchard (steve@silug.org):
> >     * Strip everything that looks like an executable or library.
> 
> Is there a (good) reason why the distributions don't have this done
> already?  Does it have drawbacks.

I think Red Hat strips most, if not all, of the binaries on the
system.  Unfortunately, they can't strip the libraries, since there's
a good chance that someone will want to debug dynamically linked
executables (which at least occasionally means stepping into library
code).

Steve
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