No gdb?

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 12 December 2008 17:22:03 Rick Stevens wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I've just been told
> >
> > A Fatal Error Occurred
> > The application KDE Daemon (kded4) crashed and caused the signal 11
> > (SIGSEGV).
> >
> > It went on to say that it couldn't create a bug report, as gdb is not
> > installed.  Shouldn't that be installed by default?
>
> It is if you install the "Software Development" group of apps.  If
> you're a desktop user and not a developer you probably don't need gdb
> in most cases.  gdb isn't huge (~3.6MB), so yeah, it could be included
> but it's not.
> 
I'm not a developer, but if that package is needed to create crash reports I 
really think that it should be part of the default install.

Anne
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