ABRT opt-out (was Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo meeting)

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 12/11/2010 03:55 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 12/11/2010 06:45 AM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
>
>>
>> If ABRT can tell that the backtrace is same as something previously
>> reported then there is no big harm, as it would only add the reporter to
>> CC and won't be generating much noise..
>> The problem here is that some maintainers doesn't want ABRT reports at
>> all even those not yet reported...
>>
>> Jirka
>
>
>    How about this - abrt keeps a list of opt in/out packages for which it
> will/not operate.
>

ABRT already has a blacklist configurable in it's config file, but it's 
controlled by ABRT maintainers... the problem or the request here is to 
have a directory like /etc/abrt.d/ where other maintainers can drop a 
config file to blacklist their package..