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On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 20:53 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> I know I could plump for the -bin package. Maybe I should. |
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I did, recently. |
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Anecdotes/opinions/rant follows. Feel free to ignore, I just wanted to |
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vent because the issue is fresh in my mind. |
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Some things just aren't worth building from source. Rust is so heavy, |
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convoluted, ill-supported and slow that I just can't be bothered to |
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spend hours of compile time on getting a slightly-less-awful version of |
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it for my system(s). And given how a desktop environment now requires |
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a Javascript engine to parse configurations (that's a separate |
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complaint), and spidermonkey requires rust to build, there's no |
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avoiding it for my needs, so I just cut bait. |
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The same can be said for GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler). I can't |
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do my day-to-day without shellcheck, but spending 8 hours to build a |
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compiler for shellcheck (and sometimes pandoc) frankly sucks. This |
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isn't gentoo's fault, or anyone's fault really. Languages are complex |
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and the code to bootstrap compile them isn't easy. Its above my skill |
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level, that's for sure. |
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8+ years of gentoo has taught me many lessons, chief among them is to |
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pick my battles. If there is some must-have or must-avoid USE flag, or |
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a killer feature that's missing from the bin build, then I'll swallow |
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the pill and take the time to compile it. If not, I've got better |
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things to do with my electricity. |
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