Re: systemd-coredump in distros

Hello friends!

On Thursday, September 21, 2017, Jan Kratochvil <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:14:48 +0200, Andreas Arnez wrote:
>> Is there a recommended/preferred way to deal with this in a typical
>> development use case?
>
> For Fedoras one must override /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-coredump.conf :
> # echo kernel.core_pattern=core >/etc/sysctl.d/thefix.conf
>
> There are so many changes to a stock Fedora distro one has to make after
its
> installation I find such detail not much important.  Someone should
finally
> build a derived distro for developers.  Or someone probably already did.
>

If it is not unwelcome, I would like to suggest Gentoo. Gentoo is a rolling
release distribution but older versions of critical packages are typically
available.

Gentoo has many non-developer users, but the nature of rolling release
distributions and Gentoo's package manager, Portage, lend themselves well
to software development. Personally I found myself needing newer and newer
packages until eventually my choice distibutions did not have them.
Maintaining those packages myself in e.g. $HOME/.local soon proved to be
intractible. I also found myself frequently undoing distribution provided
configuration.

Gentoo comes with no default configuration. A preboot environment is
available to configure a newly imstalled system. During the initial setup a
"desktop" profile can be selected which will produce a system similar to
what most users would expect from the associated desktop environment
(Plasma, GNOME, MATE, etc.).

Portage compiles software to be installed from source. Optional features
are typically disabled by default unless explicitly enabled. It is possible
and very easy to use Portage and related utilities to maintain alternate
root filesystems, including cross compilation environments or toolchains
with alternate C libraries.

Cheers,
    R0b0t1