On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 07:38:07PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 07:06:17PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > > So I'd be for either presenting the entire backtrace or suppressing the > > entire backtrace, not having teaser backtraces :) > > Let’s assume someone is getting an error in the installer for some > reason. If they are Guix developers, maybe they understand the issue > from the (trimmed) backtrace. If they are not well-versed in Unix, > with the backtrace they can exfiltrate the (trimmed) error with a > camera. I hope I understand the purpose correctly. Maybe it saves > the people on the mailing list complicated explanations. These maybes > become more likely with a fuller backtrace, I suppose. >
On the other hand the error message after the backtrace is hopefully enough most of the time. But maybe it is not. Regards, Florian
