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From: Eric Joldasov <bratishkaerik@××××××××××××.me>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] new virtual for zig
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:48:39
Message-Id: 9FD8E469-7EDA-43BE-BADC-3C15BEC5E169@getgoogleoff.me
1 Hello everyone,
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3 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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5 [1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26325
6 [2] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Troubleshooting-Build-Issues#high-memory-requirements
7 [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/823086
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9 Thanks in advance,
10 Eric

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Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual for zig "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>