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

[Dale]

Georgy Yakovlev 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Georgy
>
>


As a user, if I recall correctly, if a user wants rust-bin, all they
have to do is emerge -1 rust-bin and then let whatever package pull in
the virtual for rust.  The virtual will be satisfied and rust-bin will
be used.  From my understanding, that is the purpose of virtuals,
allowing users to pick what they want to use to satisfy the
requirement.  I wouldn't want either rust in my world file as it is not
a package I use directly.  It should be a dependency of another package,
such as Firefox. To me, this sounds like there should be a note added to
a install guide so new users are aware of this, provided it isn't
already mentioned. 

Gentoo is known for compiling from sources.  Defaulting to a package
that is a binary but available as a package from source that requires
compiling, that would be unexpected. 

Just my $0.02 worth, as a user. 

Dale

:-)  :-)