[OpenIndiana-discuss] gdb debugger

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 14.11.25 um 21:02 schrieb Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss:
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>> On 14. Nov 2025, at 19:15, Andreas Wacknitz via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
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>> Am 14.11.25 um 17:59 schrieb Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss:
>>>   How much do the additional resources cost?  I'm in for $100/month.  I can up that.  It's my sole charity.
>> Alas it's not only our servers (disk usage is usually between 30 and 60GB when I clean up the repo).
>> The more important thing in this case is every client installation. IPS is using a SAT solver in order to determine what to do (eg. solving dependencies). With a growing number of package revisions memory consumption and calculation time grow non-linear. So the cleanup mainly happens to get these numbers down.
>> This is one of the negative aspects of our rolling release model. With real releases you gain separate repositories and thus limit the number of package revisions.
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> Thats the curse of rolling updates; you “need” to keep available all repo updates to make all those people with ancient setups happy;) well, rolling release in fact means, you need to update often. (considering the security, you should update often anyhow, but thats another topic)
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> My personal opinion is that rolling updates is bad not only because of the issues about repositories but also because you will lose the ability to have development/beta/.. releases and that means you will start to be afraid of making mistakes and that means the end of innovation.
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> rgds,
> toomas
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I have tried to convince other contributors to discuss and plan to 
change to a release model.
Nobody was willing to do so. I don't intend to do that alone.

Andreas