Guys, debuginfo-isntall is in dnf-plugins-core. On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Jan Zelený <jzeleny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7. 4. 2015 at 07:25:32, Michael Catanzaro wrote: >> On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 14:15 +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote: >> > Dne 7.4.2015 v 14:09 Michael Catanzaro napsal(a): >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > I want 'dnf debug-info-install' to be available by default on >> > > Workstation. >> > >> > Sorry for my ignorance, but why it should be installed by default? >> > >> > Vít >> >> Because gdb recommends you use it whenever it detects that debuginfo >> is missing. :-) Then the process for figuring out how to install it is >> unnecessarily complex; you either have to magically know that it's >> present in dnf-plugins-extras, or else magically know about the >> yum2dnf man page and scroll to the very bottom of that (which I only >> found because I ran the old debuginfo-install command, which gdb no >> longer recommends, so new users won't find it). Much better to just >> install it by default, IMO. Or make it a dependency of gdb: that would >> be fine too. (Gosh, another great case for Recommends, if only we were >> allowed to use Recommends!) > > You are right, this is a perfect use case for Recommends. Making gdb depend on > python-dnf-plugins-extras-debug would be my second choice. Installing a plugin > by default just because it's more convenient in some situation is not wise. > >> Anyway, whatever in dnf-plugins-extras that depends on snapper really >> ought to move to another package. That is not a reasonable dependency. >> It tries (and fails) to snapshot my system whenever I run 'dnf', hence >> I uninstalled dnf-plugins-extras soon after I installed it. > > Note that dnf-plugins-extras is just a metapackage, the plugins themselves are > placed in individual subpackages. I assume you are looking for python-dnf- > plugins-extras-debug. > > HTH > Jan > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- -Igor Gnatenko -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
