Re: Anyone tried SystemTap with the latest RHEL5 Beta refresh

[Vara Prasad <prasadav at us dot ibm dot com>]

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

> Hi -
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:27:47AM -0800, Vara Prasad wrote:
>
>  
>
> > [...]  Badari is playing the role of a customer. His point of view
> > is, i have stock RHEL 5 setup, i have not made any changes to the
> > setup and trying to use systemtap and i expect it to have all the
> > pieces needed [...]
> >    
>
> Unfortunately, other customers prefer that systemtap's loose
> dependencies (particularly, the kernel-debuginfo) not be installed by
> default, even if they choose an "install everything" option at the
> anaconda screens.  Can you think of a way of satisfying both groups?
>
> - FChE
>  
O.k, before i think of a way to satisfy both the needs i need to 
understand the objection of the other group.
The objection of other customers to not to install debuginfo package is 
it because of wasted disk space due to large size of debuginfo package 
or time to install or something else.
I am assuming kernel debuginfo is considered a dependency for SystemTap, 
am i right.
What is the point of installing a package that doesn't work due to lack 
of dependencies? In other words are we not breaking the semantics or 
meaning of full package install if we don't install required 
dependencies when the customer chooses a package to install.

bye,
Vara Prasad