Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] making rust-bin ordered first in virtual/rust

[Sam James]

> On 17 Jan 2022, at 23:24, Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been approached multiple times with that request, and a lot of
> time I see new users completely destroyed by rust build time and disk
> space requirements.
>

I'll out myself as being one of these people!

> WDYT about switching order of rusts in a virtual?
>
> RDEPEND="|| (
>        ~dev-lang/rust-${PV}
>        ~dev-lang/rust-bin-${PV}
> )"
>
>
> becomes
>
> RDEPEND="|| (
>        ~dev-lang/rust-bin-${PV}
> 	~dev-lang/rust-${PV}
> )"
>
>
> Existing installs should be unaffected ofc.
> But portage may prefer to depclean rust and not rust-bin if both are
> present.
> Users who wish to use source version at all times can just add it to
> world file.
>
> I see both positives and negatives of doing that, but would like to
> reach out to community first.

I'd like to do -bin first to be consistent with OpenJDK, IcedTea,
and to improve first-install experience.

Not that I'm advocating for removing source builds or anything
like that, but I dare say Rust is generally not something that people
can customise much anyway.

As Ionen has noted, we did already switch in desktop stages.

Best,
sam