On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Glen Barber <gjb_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > The major benefit is that all debugging data that we need to properly > debug application crashes in the base system will be available > out-of-box. > > There is a trade-off here, in both directions. For arm, for example, > the trade-off is that the default installed userland would grow, however > when there is a PR regarding an application crash, the tools to diagnose > the issue are there by default (we do not need to ask that the utility > is rebuilt with debugging options enabled, and then recreate the crash). > > I considered making this an opt-in thing for arm, but given the above > rationale, thought it would be more beneficial for the opposite route. > If you feel necessary, however, we can turn this off by default for now > for arm. > Is this default value supposed to go to future releases or only kept in -current for development & debugging purpose? For releases and resource-critical platforms, it'd be nice to build them all at once but only populate when needed after installation. -Jia-shiun.Received on Thu Feb 12 2015 - 03:46:50 UTC
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