diff --git a/media-gfx/sane_backends/sane_backends-1.0.25.recipe b/media-gfx/sane_backends/sane_backends-1.0.25.recipe
index 9cf5a9634..4083e8e4b 100644
--- a/media-gfx/sane_backends/sane_backends-1.0.25.recipe
+++ b/media-gfx/sane_backends/sane_backends-1.0.25.recipe
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ BUILD()
 
 INSTALL()
 {
-	make install
+	make install-strip
 
 	# prepare develop/lib
 	prepareInstalledDevelLibs libsane