Hello Guix! guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis:
> mbakke pushed a commit to branch staging > in repository guix. > > commit ec47c07d0690653be35a75b346f3c3548a3e71d4 > Author: Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> > Date: Wed Oct 24 15:26:10 2018 +0200 > > gnu: librsvg: Update to 2.44.12. > > * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (librsvg): Update to 2.44.12. > [arguments]: Replace patching phases with custom variants. Delete five > new > tests. > [native-inputs]: Add RUST-1.27 and RUST-1.27:CARGO. This change was bound to happen since upstream switched to Rust, but it creates a few issues. First, that adds Rust to the base graphical applications, which significantly increases build times and size: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix size librsvg | tail -1 total: 207.2 MiB $ guix size librsvg rust | tail -1 total: 1052.9 MiB --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Perhaps the size issue can be somewhat mitigated by adding a “lib” output to the Rust package, but even then it would probably still be an issue. Also, is the new librsvg API-compatible with the old one? IIUC it still provides a C API, right? Does guile-rsvg still work, for example? What do other distros do? Debian kept ‘librsvg-c’ around, primarily so that architectures where Rust isn’t supported yet could still work: <https://lwn.net/Articles/771355/>. Anyway, lots of questions! Thanks, Ludo’.
