Re: Any interest in lang/rust-bin?

On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 04:36:34PM +0300, Gleb Popov wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am sorry but I do not understand, you are basically re-inventing `pkg
> > > install rust`, but from within a port, it makes little sense.
> >
> > It makes sense for Poudriere users that often have to recompile
> > lang/rust, but would like to avoid that.
>
> Well, I'm not sure this needs to be spelled out, but, well, people who
> decide to build their own ports have to, well, build their own ports.
>
> If they don't want to build their own ports, they should be using the
> packages we provide, or at least use the poudriere option that will
> fetch the packages instead of building them.

What about people that contribute to ports and run poudriere testport
on their little port and then having to wait an hour for rust to
compile?

Even if we're talking about regular users that build their own repos -
there might be various reasons why they are doing that. For instance,
someone might just want to enable some non-default options for some
ports. Why should this require building rust?