On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 20:22 -0400, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> I am trying to avoid installing rust and prevent emerge --update
> --deep world from installing it again.
> How to do this ?
>
1. Switch away from Mozilla products. Evolution is a great Thunderbird
alternative, and Epiphany is a passabl
On 12/05/2022 02:41, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
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 bu
On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 22:24 -0400, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> a choice would be to just go with firefox-bin if not rust-bin.
I went with rust-bin because lots of GTK programs (evince, gimp,
deluge) as well as some other miscellaneous utilities rely on librsvg
which requires rust.
So, since I need
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 buil
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 decid
Thank you both Julien and Miles for your help.
I got the list I wanted, and I can go ahead with removing rust.
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:25 PM Julien Roy wrote:
>
> You need to remove all packages that depend on virtual/rust
> To see which ones do, run `emerge -pv --depclean virtual/rust`
>
> Jul
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 tim
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 mozill
I am trying to avoid installing rust and prevent emerge --update
--deep world from installing it again.
How to do this ?
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