[pacman-dev] Status of sodeps?

[Xavier]

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.