Re: Wow: Building the likes of devel/llvm16 now requires building rust first (when rust is out of date). . .

On 9/13/23 23:20, Mark Millard wrote:
> Note: py39 is in use in my context.
> 
> Building devel/llvm16			requires building textproc/py-recommonmark@py39
> Building textproc/py-recommonmark@py39	requires building textproc/py-sphinx@py39
> Building textproc/py-sphinx@py39	requires building www/py-requests@py39
> Building www/py-requests@py39		requires building net/py-urllib3@py39
> Building net/py-urllib3@py39		requires building security/py-openssl@py39
> Building security/py-openssl@py39	requires building security/py-cryptography@py39
> Building security/py-cryptography@py39	requires building devel/py-setuptools-rust@py39
> Building devel/py-setuptools-rust@py39	requires building lang/rust
> 
> Building devel/llvm16 and the like just got more
> resource intensive for those not already building
> lang/rust . Building lang/rust in my context uses
> system-clang ( not a devel/llvm* ). So no loop in
> my context.
> 
(snip)
This might be the well-received(1) change to py-cryptography that added
a dependency on Rust. The forums say(2) this might be a solution:

DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=pycryptography=legacy

I look forward to the formation of an antioxidants group on Github.

Thanks,
Jose

(1) https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771
(2)
https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/rust-building-failed.90222/post-621328