[Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped /kernel ?]

[Scott Long]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:13:35PM +0200, Max Laier wrote:
> 
>>Why is this discussion ongoing? The consensus seems pretty clear: "Implement 
>>it, but have a make.conf option to turn it off." If there is concern with 
>>this make if default to off and have an option to turn it on.
>>
> 
> Implementing this is very easy, since it's already implemented,
> just not by default.
> 
> What everyone seem to have forgotten is that we also have modules,
> and in the "config -g" case, we also build debug versions of the
> modules.  And if we're also going to install modules with debug
> symbols, I think this puts the requirement for the root file
> system way beyond the rational limits.
> 
> 
> Cheers,

I tend to agree.  What do you think of my proposal to have installkernel
(optionally or whatever) put unstriped binaries somewhere outside of the
root partition?

Scott