STOP rust!

Rozhuk Ivan rozhuk.im at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 17:24:35 UTC 2020


On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:44:58 +0300
Yuri Pankov <ypankov at xsmail.com> wrote:

 
> >>> With latest ports tree librsvg2-rust-2.50.0 is required to some
> >>> ports. It want replace librsvg2-2.40.21.
> >>>
> >>> I do not want build ugly rust during hours to build small lib in
> >>> less than minute.  
> >>
> >> You might want to send your complaints to librsvg authors, or fork
> >> the before-the-rust version and maintain it; ports list really
> >> seems to be a wrong target for this discussion.
> >>  
> > 
> > This done not by librsvg authors.
> > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18878
> > 
> > And "# Use librsvg2-rust where lang/rust is available" means that
> > it is not required for all other arch.  
> 
> It is done in the latest version of librsvg, namely 2.50, and
> starting from that version rust is required to build (not to run
> though, AFAIK). The arches on which FreeBSD doesn't have working rust
> yet are to keep older version (2.40) for the moment, but that is only
> temporary workaround as you might understand.

I do not care that 2.50 > 2.40, I care only that it requires heavy dep.


> BTW, `pkg install rust` should solve the "build ugly rust during
> hours" problem for you.

I use portmaster and do not want do some actions by hand, and
pkg install may reinstall some of my apps.



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