Rust in base

[Michael Sierchio]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 2:13 PM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:02:55 +0000 (UTC)
> Ihor Antonov <ihor at antonovs.family> wrote:
>
> > So there are 2 questions:
> > - technical one: how bootstrapping issue can be solved?
> > - what does FreeBSD community think of the idea to have Rust in base?
>
>         Some years back a great deal of work was done to remove perl from
> the base so adding Rust (or anything else) would be a step back. An old BSD
> goal is that base should be just enough to be self hosting and be BSD
> (removing the traditional games from the base took some discussion).
>
>
As a fellow embedded guy, +1 to what Steve says.  Even things in the "Base"
should probably have package db entries so they can be removed.  Target
systems don't necessarily need a compiler or a full tool chain.  Then we
can converge on a consensus set of basic tools that most people will need,
with the opportunity to remove them – rather than creating a
mini/micro/nano-FreeBSD

– Michael

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