RE: [Evolution] huge RPMs

[Guy Steven <rgs etive southern co nz>]

On 19 Dec 2000 01:27:51 +0200, Nerijus Baliunas wrote:
> > > Why bonobo, gtkhtml (especially -devel) RPMs are so huge?
> > > In ftp.helixcode.com/helix/evolution/distributions/RedHat-6.
> >
> > Probably because the executables aren't stripped of debugging
> > information.  This helps by making it possible to provide useful
> > debugging information when evolution crashes, at the expense of a bit
>
> But if I make rpms myself (with rpm -tb command) they are much
> smaller. It is nonsense - user who compiles himself may not
> want to strip libraries, the end user who downloads only rpms
> gets unstripped ones. And I don't think users who download
> binary rpms know how to use gdb.

There is a price to be paid for using a product before it is finished.
If the developers choose to produce rpms in a form that will assist in
debugging the product that is their choice. When there is an official
stable release, then you can ask for a stripped version. In the meantime
if you want smaller binaries, use the strip command. This won't help
with the download though.

> Please provide stripped rpms (you can make unstripped default,
> but please give some place where I can download stripped ones).
> You Americans pay 20 USD for unmetered dialup access,
> but I pay ~100 USD a month here for metered access, and if
> I used dialup more, I'd pay about 250 USD...

Get the source from cvs. When you wish to update, you will only download
the files that have changed!.

 
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