2010/1/4 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc(a)redhat.com>:
On 01/04/2010 07:41 AM, James Antill wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 13:37 +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
>>
>> On 01/02/2010 03:32 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>>>
>>> Moreover ABRT does not install the whole debuginfo package but only
>>> copies the
>>> needed specific .debug files out of it somewhere - as know the ABRT
>>> people.
>>
>> Exactly, we don't install it, just extract the package to
>> /var/cache/abrt-di. ABRT doesn't remove it automatically, but it's a
>> planned feature.
>
> Why do you do this?
>
We don't need root privileges and we can have multiple versions of the same
debuginfo package installed.
What's the benefit of having multiple versions of the same debuginfo
installed when you can't have multiple versions of the same RPM
installed?
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Mat Booth