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From: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] BTF archive with unmodified pahole+toolchain
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FWIW, as a source-based distro, we'd love to have BTF-only be quite
cheap, because right now, having DWARF makes it challenging for us to
enable it by default as users build on a range of different hardware and
the increased size of the unstripped vmlinux binary plus build-time
requirements doesn't make it worth it.

(Not every distro is building once and shipping to many and has the
luxury of stripping out components ;))

Thanks for working on this.