On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:41:55 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

> > Firefox and Rust have -bin packages - not so lucky with LLVM and
> > webkit-gtk.
> 
> Everything has a -bin package if you're willing to trade the security,
> configurability, and performance that you get from a source build:


> https://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/amd64/binpkg/default/linux/17.1/x86-64/

I was referring to the upstream-provided packages. Everything is
available as a binary package if you have someone to build it for you ;-)
 
> FWIW I dodge the librsvg (and therefore rust) dependency by using a
> binpkg for my desktop icons. There's no (security, configurability, or
> performance) issues with using pre-built icons, and only a few tiny
> things are left a little bit broken. So, a normal day in Gentoo.

dev-python/cryptography now depends on rust, so it's getting harder to
avoid :(


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Neil Bothwick

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