Cal, like I said, gentoo has always been about choices. I am not blaming anyone for anything. At the end of the day, it is open source, and the work done by the community is highly appreciated. I am sorry it was understood the other way around.
The frustration level grows when I have too many build tools that take forever to build, and there's no way around it. And yes, like Grant said, a choice would be to just go with firefox-bin if not rust-bin. Thank you all On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:03 PM cal <c...@mail.meme.technology> wrote: > > 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.mal...@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 <jul...@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.alak...@gmail.com: > >>> > >>> I am trying to avoid installing rust and prevent emerge --update > >>> --deep world from installing it again. > >>> How to do this ? > >>> > >>> > >> > >
