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From: R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust??
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:42:07
Message-Id: CAAD4mYg7EFfw3o78WjRPk3c=8sgyr_d+ipfy=eSd5q5TZ-+ALA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust?? by Danny YUE
1 On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:13 AM, Danny YUE <sheepduke@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi guys,
3 >
4 > I just found during upgrading my system that Firefox 54.0 depends on
5 > dev-lang/rust and cannot be disabled?!
6 >
7 > It really takes a long time to compile rust, and I do not want to add
8 > such a burden to my system compilation time.
9 >
10 > Does anyone knows why? Any idea?
11 >
12 > Thanks.
13 >
14 > Danny
15 >
16
17 This is kind of troubling because much like Cabal it seems like the
18 Rust package management system is insecure. Does the Firefox build
19 process make use of it?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust?? Nils Freydank <nils.freydank@××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust?? Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>