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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rust is here to eat your Pythonz
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:41:13
Message-Id: YuEkTgPQ/tM14hfp@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rust is here to eat your Pythonz by "Michał Górny"
1 On 27-07-2022 13:30:32 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2022-07-27 at 12:52 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
3 > > On 26-07-2022 08:42:57 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > > > Hi, everyone.
5 > > >
6 > > > Just a quick FYI: since Rust is going to be marked stable on the last
7 > > > architecture (sparc) that it's going to support in Gentoo, we're going
8 > > > to start cleaning up old dev-python/cryptography soon. If you don't
9 > > > want Rust, removing cryptography entirely will be your only option.
10 > >
11 > > I believe this isn't always a "don't want", there's systems on which it
12 > > simply is impossible to get Rust (ppc64-linux-musl for example). How
13 > > much does "removing cryptography" impact an Gentoo system wrt
14 > > availability of packages? I see pip in the list, so I expect the Python
15 > > env will be seriously crippled? An estimation of the impact would be
16 > > appreciated here.
17 > >
18 >
19 > Check the wd40 profile, all relevant masks are included there.
20
21 That helps, thanks!
22 Fabian
23
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25 Fabian Groffen
26 Gentoo on a different level

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