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From: Brian Evans <grknight@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] making rust-bin ordered first in virtual/rust
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:32:39
Message-Id: 5b3e3adb-5582-ef42-4e28-79825d5d29d1@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] making rust-bin ordered first in virtual/rust by Georgy Yakovlev
1 On 1/17/2022 6:24 PM, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I've been approached multiple times with that request, and a lot of
5 > time I see new users completely destroyed by rust build time and disk
6 > space requirements.
7 >
8
9 I bet that the pending polkit merge request[1] (which is just about
10 ready and blessed but not merged by devs) would seriously drop many
11 people's concerns over rust.
12
13 Using duktape on most systems will suffice for polkit once included.
14
15 GNOME and Mozilla products still pull in spidermonkey but other users
16 will have a much reduced requirement for rust.
17
18 Brian
19
20 [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/merge_requests/97

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