Re: [gentoo-user] Remove rust completely

[Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@gmail.com>]

Miles,
Thank you for your response. The idea of "getting harder and harder"
is hard to accept. Gentoo has always been about having choices.
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 !

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 ?
> >
> >
>