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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:41:27 -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix I'm not a Python geek, but it is my language...
In some cases, the amount of disk space has been more than just "a little", proportionally. But I do agree with you ...
Of course, sometimes it is a good reason to save all the disk space you can, but now that any "current" thing isn't likely to run anything directly off a floppy anymore, it's getting sort of rare.
Speaking as a sysadmin who has had to do exactly that once, well, sometimes there is no other option.
(The executable needed to not abort right away even if the filesystem the dynamic linker lived in turned out to not have been mounted. And space was sort of tight where it itself went.)
Exactly the expected result, then..? That's the other side of the tradeoff right there. There's no excuse for not knowing that when doing such things, IMHO.
I think we were made to try debugging a stripped static binary in a programming clbutt once, just to make this point.
Well, that's just stupid. They should have paid your people more to test the stuff too, if it was at all important.
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