Re: [pacman-dev] Status of sodeps?

Florian Pritz wrote:

I've asked a few people, looked at the code used for stripping and I think it's safe to check only executable files. That cut down the time needed for sage from 5 min to 19 sec (i7-920, tempfs).

I've also noticed that the stripping code uses -perm -o+x and not -executable. The manpage says -executable also checks ACLs and owner, group, other. Any reason why we don't use -executable?

If it's not portable, we need a specific case for GNU/Linux. But we already have to do that for other tools.