ABRT considered painful

[Milos Jakubicek]

On 3.1.2010 13:37, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
> On 01/02/2010 03:32 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>> On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:39:07 +0100, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote:
>>> When the debuginfo package of a particular binary is
>>> installed, then the symbols are loaded whenever the binary is loaded or
>>> are the symbols only considered by tools like gdb and so on?
>>
>> The latter.
>>
>> Moreover ABRT does not install the whole debuginfo package but only
>> copies the
>> needed specific .debug files out of it somewhere - as know the ABRT
>> people.
>>
>>
>> Jan
>>
>
> Exactly, we don't install it, just extract the package to
> /var/cache/abrt-di. ABRT doesn't remove it automatically, but it's a
> planned feature.

If you will indeed implement this, please let the users choose whether 
they want the .debug files (or whatever you extract) to be removed or 
kept forever. I'm really happy with the current situation and do not 
want to wait until ABRT downloads the debuginfo packages every time again.

Thanks,
Milos