[pacman-dev] stripping binaries in makepkg

[Allan McRae]

On 23/09/10 14:55, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
>   I'd also like an answer to this. Why not do away with the individual
> directories? Locating the binaries even in a fairly large package will
> be fairly quick in any case.
>

It has been that way since 2005-03-15 with the initial commit in the git 
repo: 
http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/diff/scripts/makepkg?id=d04baabafa 
.  Except then the path was hard-coded in makepkg.  The configurable 
STRIP_DIRS came much later: 
http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=ae9e33ed


As to why...  I have never thought about it other than it seems a waste 
to search /usr/share for binaries to strip.

Allan