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When updating my refurbished Lenovo notebook, I saw that "rust" was |
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being pulled in as a dependency by system-bootstrap. My initial |
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reaction was WTF? I'm sure the kernel devs will say "because we said |
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so... neener... neener". I don't want to fight that argument. |
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Just like Mozilla's other product, rust is an unbelievably bloated |
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monstrosity. My 3-gig RAM notebook, with a core2 cpu forced to max |
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(2.534 ghz) took 3 hours 51 minutes to build rust-1.45.2... ouch! This |
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compares to 2 hours 10 minutes for gcc-9.3, and 13 minutes for x265-3.4. |
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I notice that there is a "rust-bin" ebuild present. If nothing else, |
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I'd like to switch over to that to save the notebook from unnecessary |
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grinding when rust updates. What's the procedure for selecting it? |
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I've already tried the obvious... |
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[thimk][root][~] eselect rust list |
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Available Rust versions: |
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[1] rust-1.45.2 * |
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"emerge -pv rust-bin" gives... |
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[ebuild N ] dev-lang/rust-bin-1.45.2:stable::gentoo USE="-clippy -doc -rls -rustfmt" CPU_FLAGS_X86="sse2" 115,367 KiB |
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I *HOPE* that it's as simple as emerging rust-bin, and eselect-ing |
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it, but I want to check here before I risk breaking my system with |
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wild guesses. |
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-- |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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