ABRT considered painful

[Mat Booth]

2010/1/4 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc at redhat.com>:
> On 01/04/2010 07:41 AM, James Antill wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 13:37 +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/02/2010 03:32 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>  Why do you do this?
>>
>
> We don't need root privileges and we can have multiple versions of the same
> debuginfo package installed.
>

What's the benefit of having multiple versions of the same debuginfo
installed when you can't have multiple versions of the same RPM
installed?


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Mat Booth