Re: dnf debug-info-install

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Dne 7.4.2015 v 14:25 Michael Catanzaro napsal(a):
> 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 I have the same question with regards to GDB. Although I consider
my computer to be development computer and I probably have GDB
installed, I'd be much happier if it is not the case.

Vít


>  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!)
>
> 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.
>
> Michael

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