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On 17 December 2012 18:55, Tomáš Chvátal <tomas.chvatal@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 2012/12/17 Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>: |
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> > Please don't. For most users this is a waste of resources. |
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> On first look it seems like waste of resources. |
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> On second hand it makes stuff easy wrt bugreports provided by users. |
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> And believe me when I say most upstreams are pissed by gentoo reports |
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> because they lack any good debuginfo features, nor they know how to |
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> tell users how to make their systems contain debug informations. I |
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> have seen quite few upstreams rejecting all by Gentoo reported issues |
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> because of this, plus they were quite suprised that I actually can |
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> generate any sane debug informations with it. |
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I still think it is a bad idea to enable something that is not necessary |
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for most users by default. |
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For your purposes it should be enough to update our existing documentation |
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about debugging, and link to it from the handbook. Let the user make an |
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informed choice by himself. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin |
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