diff --git a/dev-debug/dtrace/dtrace-2.0.3-r2.ebuild b/dev-debug/dtrace/dtrace-2.0.3-r2.ebuild
index 3c38bf72a3c21..5d961eac36e6e 100644
--- a/dev-debug/dtrace/dtrace-2.0.3-r2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-debug/dtrace/dtrace-2.0.3-r2.ebuild
@@ -167,7 +167,8 @@ src_test() {
 src_install() {
 	emake DESTDIR="${D}" -j1 install $(usev test-install install-test)
 
-	# Stripping the BPF libs breaks them
+	# We want to strip neither the BPF libraries nor libdtrace.so itself
+	# as probes attach to some symbols that would get removed otherwise.
 	dostrip -x "/usr/$(get_libdir)"
 
 	# It's a binary (TODO: move it?)
diff --git a/dev-debug/dtrace/dtrace-9999.ebuild b/dev-debug/dtrace/dtrace-9999.ebuild
index adf19369b7000..20603ddb65597 100644
--- a/dev-debug/dtrace/dtrace-9999.ebuild
+++ b/dev-debug/dtrace/dtrace-9999.ebuild
@@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ src_test() {
 src_install() {
 	emake DESTDIR="${D}" -j1 install $(usev test-install install-test)
 
-	# Stripping the BPF libs breaks them
+	# We want to strip neither the BPF libraries nor libdtrace.so itself
+	# as probes attach to some symbols that would get removed otherwise.
 	dostrip -x "/usr/$(get_libdir)"
 
 	# It's a binary (TODO: move it?)