i noticed this as well after the release and have since done what you suggest (for the next release). although i noticed also that somewhere in our tarball build script the vtk lib symlinks are being changed to copies, so what should be 61MB is actually consuming 180MB, something that should be fixed.
n.
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 11:06 +1000, Chris Adamson wrote:
I noticed that the vtk libraries included with Freesurfer took up 800MB of disk space. Upon investigation of this I noticed that all the shared libraries were unstripped. After stripping them they only took up 100MB. I was thinking that if there was no compelling debugging reason to leave the symbols in the vtk libraries then stripping them should lead to a much smaller download size of the freesurfer distro.
Chris Adamson.