Re: [gentoo-user] How to switch from rust to rust-bin?

[Jorge Almeida]

On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 8:49 AM Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
>
>   When updating my refurbished Lenovo notebook, I saw that "rust" was
> being pulled in as a dependency by system-bootstrap.  My initial
> reaction was WTF?  I'm sure the kernel devs will say "because we said

I had the same problem. rust is pulled in by useful packages (e.g.
openbox, indirectly). I emerged rust-bin and then the packages I
wanted just used it as providing virtual/rust. There should exist some
USE flag, because if you don't emerge rust-bin priorly, emerge will
try to pull in rust-the-monster, and you may not realize there is an
alternative.

HTH

Jorge