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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygport debug junk
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50076256.5000206@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50073E51.1090709@users.sourceforge.net>

On 7/18/2012 6:53 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> Bzzzt.  Don't use internal structures.  If it's not documented in the
> manual, you shouldn't be using it in your .cygport, and anything
> starting with an underscore is purely internal.

Sorry, I didn't realize that.

> But again, while I can't state this as policy, you really shouldn't be
> disabling debuginfo on a widespread or permanent basis.  It's a feature
> and it's there for a reason.

I disabled it for my recent texlive release, simply because texlive is 
so huge already that I didn't want to add to it.  Do you think that was 
the wrong decision?

Ken


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-19  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-18 20:58 Andrew Schulman
2012-07-18 22:07 ` Ken Brown
2012-07-18 22:53   ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-07-19  1:27     ` Ken Brown [this message]
2012-07-19  5:05       ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-07-19 14:50     ` Andrew Schulman
2012-07-19 17:30     ` Andrew Schulman
2012-07-19 21:12       ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)

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