Hi Frank, On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:05:42AM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler via Elfutils-devel wrote: > > [...] But I think that is the nice things about using the > > environment variable to indicate debuginfod-client should be used in > > a specific environment. [...] > > This is only a way of making the default more of an opt-out than an > opt-in, and put it into a -single- systemwide spot (instead of two > profile.* files plus all the opt-in systemd unit files). A daemon > -disinterested- in participating could set the same env var to be an > empty string.
But I think an interactive user environment is different from a standalone running daemon environment. So I think it makes sense they might use diffent opt-in/out strategies. > > Also some distros already seem to rely on the profile files, so > > removing them now seems like a bad idea. > > Well, nothing stops them from continuing to ship the same files, they > don't need to come from elfutils upstream. > > Anyway all that said, I'm neutral on this change. Any other opinions? It is really a distro decission I guess. How do different distros handle this? Cheers, Mark
