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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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> |
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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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> 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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>> 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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