Re: strip in rpmbuild

[Erwin Rol <mailinglists erwinrol com>]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 19:15 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 18:25 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> > Over-engineering or not, binaries have nothing to do in source rpms,
> They do. They are just "data".
> 
> Or would you install a raytracer, just because a jpeg being used as
> image somewhere is being generated by a raytracer?
> 
> > especially not for an open source distribution like Fedora. And since
> > they can be build from the source, there is no need for binaries in the
> > first place. So to me using the binaries just sounds like
> > lazy-engineering to me ;-)
> Absolutely not: 
> 
> You are building a tool chain, you are not building nor supplying the
> OS. The situation is not any different from building a native GCC under
> Linux: You use the library binaries being provided elsewhere.

Lets be gentlemen and agree to differ on this subject :-)

- Erwin