dnf debug-info-install

[Igor Gnatenko]

Guys, debuginfo-isntall is in dnf-plugins-core.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> 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
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-Igor Gnatenko