On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:02:50PM -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 18:24 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > 1) What can we reasonably set? > > > > Right now, there's MALLOC_CHECK_ and MALLOC_PERTURB. There > > should be more. Is there anything in the various desktops > > that is appropriate? > > I would love it if, when this 'debug mode' is active, any package > installation would automagically install the relevant debuginfos to > accompany it. (Likewise, any package removal should remove the leaf > debuginfo.) If that happens it should definitly be optional given the size of debuginfo packages. I can't think of a single situation where I'd need the debuginfo for every package installed. Installing them on demand before running gdb is painful, but a lot less so than sitting around twiddling thumbs waiting for yum to update several gig of debuginfos. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
