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On Tuesday, 27 April 2021 22:17:20 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: |
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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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> ... |
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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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Heh! I had a go more than once increasing RAM allocated to /var/tmp/portage |
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also running out of memory. I think this is the second time it happened to me |
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in the last 6 months or so. There's a bug on this: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757276 |
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There's three options, I can think of: |
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1. Use dev-lang/rust-bin, as Matt suggested above. |
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2. Buy more RAM, or use a surrogate PC with more RAM to cross-compile it. |
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3. Use a partition with enough space on it to bind mount /var/tmp/portage, for |
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this package only. |
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I use the 3rd option, but I'm wondering if option 1 may be the smartest move |
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for my needs. |
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