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Cal, like I said, gentoo has always been about choices. I am not |
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blaming anyone for anything. At the end of the day, it is open source, |
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and the work done by the community is highly appreciated. |
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I am sorry it was understood the other way around. |
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The frustration level grows when I have too many build tools that take |
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forever to build, and there's no way around it. |
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And yes, like Grant said, a choice would be to just go with |
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firefox-bin if not rust-bin. |
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Thank you all |
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On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:03 PM cal <cal@×××××××××.technology> wrote: |
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> On 5/11/22 18:41, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: |
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> > Miles, |
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> > Thank you for your response. The idea of "getting harder and harder" |
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> > is hard to accept. Gentoo has always been about having choice> Firefox requires rust, but is there a way to disable this ? |
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> > There must be another way to let the user decide if they need it or not ! |
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> At the distribution level, sure, but the Gentoo package maintainers |
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> don't necessarily have the authority to control what upstream software |
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> developers are doing. I continue to find it perplexing how many people |
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> on this list hold responsible the Gentoo packaging for the |
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> decision-making of upstream developers. |
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> Significant core components of Firefox are written in Rust, and have |
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> been for years. Whether or not this is a good thing is in the eyes of |
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> the beholder, but it has nothing to do with the Gentoo packaging -- it's |
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> a Mozilla decision. |
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> > And yes, the compile time is one of the factors in not wanting it on |
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> > my system. The second factor is a natural reaction toward feeling that |
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> > I am forced to have it. |
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> > Another reason is the growing collection of compilers and development |
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> > tools and their build time (gcc, bin-utils, llvm, clang ... etc.) and |
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> > now rust. |
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> > Firefox itself takes a lot of time to build, and if rust is a must |
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> > have, then maybe it is time for me to look into something else. I know |
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> > there's firefox-bin, and if it doesn't need rust, then maybe it is an |
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> > option. |
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> > |
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> > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:55 PM Miles Malone |
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> > <m.malone@××××××××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> >> If your *reason* for wanting to remove rust is the compile time, bear |
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> >> in mind there is also a rust-bin package these days. There are an |
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> >> increasingly large number of major packages that have rust as a |
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> >> dependency, so it's getting harder and harder to get away from. |
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> >> Obviously anything from the mozilla foundation, but there's a lot of |
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> >> others too. |
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> >> |
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> >> Miles |
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> >> On Thu, 12 May 2022 at 10:25, Julien Roy <julien@××××.ca> wrote: |
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> >>> You need to remove all packages that depend on virtual/rust |
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> >>> To see which ones do, run `emerge -pv --depclean virtual/rust` |
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> >>> Julien |
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> >>> May 11, 2022, 20:22 by mansour.alakeel@×××××.com: |
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> >>> I am trying to avoid installing rust and prevent emerge --update |
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> >>> --deep world from installing it again. |
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> >>> How to do this ? |
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