On 09/05/2015 02:21 PM, Jauhien Piatlicki wrote: > Hi, > > I have plans to split ?/cargo-bin [1] package from the dev-lang/rust-bin > one. We have already dev-rust/cargo package in the rust overlay[2]. > > It would be logical to have dev-rust/cargo-bin package then. But there > is a problem: it will be the only package in this category in the tree > and it is not welcome to have categories with small number of packages. > Other rust stuff will appear, but later (with no estimate), as a number > of problems with packaging source rust packages should be solved before > (afaik upstream also has plans to improve rust packaging). The same > about moving source cargo to the tree. > > So what is better, create dev-util/cargo-bin package and later, when > rust infrastructure grows, move it to the dev-rust category or create > new category now? > > [1] https://crates.io/ > [2] https://github.com/Heather/gentoo-rust > > -- > Jauhien >
I think cargo should probably go in dev-util with other rust libraries and programs going into dev-rust as needed, but that's just me :D -- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
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