Arch Linux

Right now, you guys remove the coredump rule:

# remove the coredump rule until minidumps are a thing.
rm "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-coredump.conf"

This basically removes a functionality probably don't want.
But if they do, they will have to install that file in /etc/sysctl.d/

As of systemd 215, the situation is a lot better as coredumps are stored in /var/lib/system/coredumps/ by default instead of polluting the journal.

If you still want your users' systems to not collect coredumps,
how about instead just modify the stock /etc/systemd/coredump.conf to

[Coredump]
Storage=none

This way users can modify coredump.conf if they want coredumps stored instead of having to add an additional file in /etc/sysctl.d/

This sounds a bit more elegant. Do think about it please :)

The advantage of reinstating that file but defaulting Storage to none is that the stack traces under systemd 215 are logged but the coredump isn't. So even with Storage set to none, i will at least be able to know what crashed and when.

Thank you for reading the report.