Re: [gentoo-user] Remove rust completely

[cal <cal@mail.meme.technology>]

On 5/11/22 18:41, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> Miles,
> Thank you for your response. The idea of "getting harder and harder"
> is hard to accept. Gentoo has always been about having choice> Firefox requires rust, but is there a way to disable this ?
> There must be another way to let the user decide if they need it or not !
At the distribution level, sure, but the Gentoo package maintainers
don't necessarily have the authority to control what upstream software
developers are doing.  I continue to find it perplexing how many people
on this list hold responsible the Gentoo packaging for the
decision-making of upstream developers.

Significant core components of Firefox are written in Rust, and have
been for years.  Whether or not this is a good thing is in the eyes of
the beholder, but it has nothing to do with the Gentoo packaging -- it's
a Mozilla decision.
> 
> And yes, the compile time is one of the factors in not wanting it on
> my system. The second factor is a natural reaction toward feeling that
> I am forced to have it.
> Another reason is the growing collection of compilers and development
> tools and their build time (gcc, bin-utils, llvm, clang ... etc.) and
> now rust.
> 
> Firefox itself takes a lot of time to build, and if rust is a must
> have, then maybe it is time for me to look into something else. I know
> there's firefox-bin, and if it doesn't need rust, then maybe it is an
> option.
> 
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:55 PM Miles Malone
> <m.malone@homicidalteddybear.net> wrote:
>>
>> If your *reason* for wanting to remove rust is the compile time, bear
>> in mind there is also a rust-bin package these days.  There are an
>> increasingly large number of major packages that have rust as a
>> dependency, so it's getting harder and harder to get away from.
>> Obviously anything from the mozilla foundation, but there's a lot of
>> others too.
>>
>> Miles
>>
>> On Thu, 12 May 2022 at 10:25, Julien Roy <julien@jroy.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> You need to remove all packages that depend on virtual/rust
>>> To see which ones do, run `emerge -pv --depclean virtual/rust`
>>>
>>> Julien
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> May 11, 2022, 20:22 by mansour.alakeel@gmail.com:
>>>
>>> I am trying to avoid installing rust and prevent emerge --update
>>> --deep world from installing it again.
>>> How to do this ?
>>>
>>>
>>