2007/4/28, Travis Willard <travis@archlinux.org>:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:46:55 +0300 "Roman Kyrylych" <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
OK, OK, let throw off bandwidth/size concerns. But then I'd like to see an option to strip *.h and *.a (which are pretty useless for users that never makepkg anything nor use aurbuild etc.)
There's a problem with stripping stuff needed for build - that "problem" is the AUR. Someone may never expect to need to compile, but then suddenly they realize this really neat or critical app is only available in the AUR - what happens when they set their option to strip away all these files? How do they get them back? This seems like it could be a big hassle.
The possibility that user that intentionally want to strip headers will _maybe_ need them in some distant future is not excuse, really. ;-) I think saying "hey, let's ship docs but have an option to strip them after install" and "option to strip headers is not good" is twofold. I don't understand such opinions, sorry... :-/ -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)