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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/cryptography to use rust, effectively
 killing alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, s390
From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 07:27:04 -0500
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On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 12:19 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> 
> Since cryptography is a very important package in the Python ecosystem,
> and it is an indirect dependency of Portage, this means that we will
> probably have to entirely drop support for architectures that are not
> supported by Rust.
> 

Not only that, but you will be dropping support for at least two of my
machines that are literally incapable of building the 10+ GiB bundled
rust package due to the amount of disk space and RAM required.