> Wouldn’t initiatives like rust-dev[0] help with that? I know that Debian 
> is also packaging Rust this way[1].

I think this was tried long time ago in rust-overlay and failed at the 
end because the dependency graph was incredibly big. In fact you can see 
it on the wiki, this is larger than _the bigger_ Haskell packages.

> I guess the simplest explanation is that software is growing larger,

This is not only the case of Rust, but Go, JAVA and .NET and maybe some 
other projects. Self-bootstrap anyone? :)

> Can this growth be explained?
> Is it expected to continue at this rate? 

Graph is just showing the overall growth, if we associate distfiles to 
packages we will get the answers.

W dniu 15.03.2024 o 16:40, Hoël Bézier pisze:
>> I guess the simplest explanation is that software is growing larger,
>> and in the end we should be expecting to adding new packages faster than
>> removing dead ones.  Add to that the grotesque inefficiency of modern
>> programming languages such as Go and Rust.
> 
> Wouldn’t initiatives like rust-dev[0] help with that? I know that Debian 
> is also packaging Rust this way[1].
> 
> [0]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Rust/rust-dev
> [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/Rust
> 
> Hoël

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