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Sounds good, thank you! |
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On August 17, 2022 5:43:53 AM UTC, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 22:48 +0000, Eric Joldasov wrote: |
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>> Hello everyone, |
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>> I'd like to introduce "zig" virtual package that will be satisfied by "dev-lang/zig-bin" or "dev-lang/zig" package [1]. The main reason is that compilation of "dev-lang/zig" requires a lot of RAM [2] (10 GB, which makes it impossible to build on x86 arch) and depends on LLVM, which can be a big problem for people who just want to upgrade "sys-fs/ncdu" (the only reverse dependency) or use this programming language on systems with small amount of RAM. |
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>> [1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26325 |
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>> [2] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Troubleshooting-Build-Issues#high-memory-requirements |
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>> [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/823086 |
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>In general that's a valid use of virtual and I don't exactly mind having |
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>it added but if it's just one package, perhaps it'd be better to start |
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>with a simple || dep and see how things develop? |
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