Re: [Corelinux-develop] Why is RPM dev package so much fatter than DEB?

[Christophe Prud'h. <pru...@MI...>]

> do you have some specific compilation flags?
> what make the libs fatter is generally the debugging flags
> do you define CXXFLAGS in you environment variables?
forget this

> (both deb and rpm use the same flags otherwise, they are built using
> configure)
> I rebuild corelinux rpms on my computer to see if they have the same size
> as yours.
I rebuilt it and have about the same size as yours
my guess is that the rpm contents are not compressed automatically
this is the only explanation
I'll have a look at the rpm manual

in the doc I compress the doc manually and everything is fine !
(deb ~= rpm)

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