[CentOS] abrt relevance?

[Eric Smith]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> On 07/20/2014 02:11 PM, Ted Miller wrote:
>> I am trying to understand the relevance of the abrt program.  It pops up
>> automatically when somethings acts up, but I can't submit anything to RH,
>> because I haven't paid their fees.  It is a very bad user experience to go
>> through the whole process of describing what led up to the problem and get
>> to the end of the process and be rejected with an un-fixable error message
>> (because I didn't buy RHEL support).  It seems to me that either:
>>
>> 1. It should be modified so that it points to somewhere that I can file a
>> report (such a place probably doesn't exist).
>>
>> or
>>
>> 2. It not automatically activated (because it is irrelevant to most users).
>>
>> or
>>
>> 3. It should be modified so that it creates a file for submission.
>>
>> Anybody have any reason to have it act the way it does on C6.5?
>>
>> Ted Miller
>> Elkhart, IN
>>
>> P.S. It would be nice if anyone has a hint about why KDE desktop keeps
>> giving me "Process /usr/bin/plasma-desktop was killed by signal 11
>> (SIGSEGV) errors.  My desktop (but not the windows on it) goes black.
>> Usually it comes back in 2-4 seconds, but sometimes it disappears and stays
>> gone.  Then I can switch windows with Alt+Tab, but can't open any new ones,
>> and the only way to log out is Ctl+Alt+Backspace.
>
> The goal of CentOS is to:
>
> "As such, CentOS Linux aims to be functionally compatible with RHEL. We
> mainly change packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork."
>
> So, abrt has been modified to remove branding and artwork ... we would
> like to make it more relevant and functional.  This is one of the
> packages where we would certainly like the ability to provide something
> better than we do .. patches from the community are welcomed/encouraged
> to make it better.

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't CentOS remove the facilities for using
the Red Hat Network, e.g., through yum?  If so, removing abrt or not
having it attempt to use Red Hat's abrt server end would be entirely
consistent with that, even though it goes beyond "removing branding
and artwork".