On 2022-05-12, Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for your response. The idea of "getting harder and harder" > is hard to accept. Gentoo has always been about having choices.
It is. You can choose to avoid Rust if you want. > Firefox requires rust, but is there a way to disable this? No. > There must be another way to let the user decide if they need it or not! If you need Firefox, you need rust. > And yes, the compile time is one of the factors in not wanting it on > my system. rust-bin solves that problem. > 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. Firefox-bin does not require rust.
