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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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