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On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 20:22 -0400, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: |
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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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1. Switch away from Mozilla products. Evolution is a great Thunderbird |
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alternative, and Epiphany is a passable Firefox substitute. |
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2a. Give up on SVG support in anything other than inkscape. The only |
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two standalone (i.e. outside of inkscape) SVG libraries involve rust. |
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2b. Add gnome-base/librsvg to package.provided, and use pre-built |
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binary packages[0] for any GTK icon themes you need. This isn't perfect |
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(a few application icons won't render), but it's livable. |
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3. If you use app-antivirus/clamav, the stable 0.103.x series will |
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remain rust-free and supported (in Gentoo) until it no longer works, or |
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has a security issue that isn't easy to backport. Unless you need this |
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for compliance reasons or for a mail server with third-party |
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signatures, the "good" news is that its detection rate has never been |
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great. You're not much worse off without it. |
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4a. Help the Gentoo developers by pointing out any packages that |
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currently depend on dev-python/cryptography (which now needs rust) |
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where that dependency can be made optional by a USE flag. |
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4b. If upstream is interested, you can try to port python packages away |
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from the cryptography package to something like pyNaCl. |
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[0]https://dilfridge.blogspot.com/2021/09/experimental-binary-gentoo-package.html |
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