On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:50:30PM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote:
> I'm in favor of it enabled per default but I'd like to know what you
> think and why. (advantages of on/off by default etc..)
> 

This should definitely be enabled by default, we dont need to enable
debugging information for this to be useful, just having the symbol
table available will make getting backtraces and diagnosing problems
many times easier with little extra diskspace requirements. Gentoo is
way behind on this feature, all the other major distributions have
caught on to how useful detatched debugging symbols can be.

If we dont enable this by default, I think the users who really need it
(ie, the ones who want us to track down a bug but are unable to provide
enough debugging information to do so) probably wont have the foresight
to turn it on.

This could also be a major boon for administrators imho, if a service
is dumping core unpredicatbly this feature and enabling coredumps would
be enough to start tracking down the problem, or at least identifying
the culprit.

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