Hi there,

there is a discussion going on on the Xfce developer list at [email protected]:

  Concerns Regarding the Choice of Rust for the Xfce Wayland Compositor

From my packager point of view, I must admit that I really hate using
Rust and Cargo within a package to be built in OBS, e.g. firefox-esr can
really be a pita when changes to our llvm/cargo/rust stack requires
changes to elements from the dependency chain, which would normally
handled by cargo downloading the stuff from Crate.io. This is verboten,
of course, so you end up either creating a new vendor.tar file or
patching checksums in the Cargo.lock file (this was necessary for
firefox-esr and MozillaThunderbird with the latest update to glibc-2.43
recently).

I sent my reasoning to the list, but wanted to hear about your opinion
on this topic.

TIA, cheers.

l8er
manfred

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