Should pkgsrc automatically strip(1) libraries and executables?

Should we have an option to enable auto strip(1)ing of installed object
files?

I know some individual packages do strip in their own build system, but
not all do.

Here is an example of a big file:

Native pkgsrc system (installed using pkgsrc):

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2598868 Mar 20 21:32
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0.0

Same file now stripped:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       350088 Mar 26 12:49
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0.0

Similar file on a Red Hat box:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       357172 Feb  4  2003
/mnt/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0.0.0

These are to huge files as installed from pkgsrc:

13M     /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.5
12M     /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.200.4

reed@puget:/usr/pkgsrc$ sudo strip /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.5
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.200.4

reed@puget:/usr/pkgsrc$ du -h /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.5
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.200.4
2.4M    /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.5
2.6M    /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.200.4


Now here are similar on a Red Hat box (from Red Hat rpms):

reed@puget:/usr/pkgsrc$ du -h /mnt/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
/mnt/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.200.1
452K    /mnt/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
2.4M    /mnt/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.200.1


(As for that huge size difference I will discuss in another email.)

What do you think about pkgsrc option to strip?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/