On 5/11/22 18:41, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > Miles, > Thank you for your response. The idea of "getting harder and harder" > is hard to accept. Gentoo has always been about having choice> Firefox > requires rust, but is there a way to disable this ? > There must be another way to let the user decide if they need it or not ! At the distribution level, sure, but the Gentoo package maintainers don't necessarily have the authority to control what upstream software developers are doing. I continue to find it perplexing how many people on this list hold responsible the Gentoo packaging for the decision-making of upstream developers.
Significant core components of Firefox are written in Rust, and have been for years. Whether or not this is a good thing is in the eyes of the beholder, but it has nothing to do with the Gentoo packaging -- it's a Mozilla decision. > > And yes, the compile time is one of the factors in not wanting it on > my system. The second factor is a natural reaction toward feeling that > I am forced to have it. > Another reason is the growing collection of compilers and development > tools and their build time (gcc, bin-utils, llvm, clang ... etc.) and > now rust. > > Firefox itself takes a lot of time to build, and if rust is a must > have, then maybe it is time for me to look into something else. I know > there's firefox-bin, and if it doesn't need rust, then maybe it is an > option. > > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:55 PM Miles Malone > <m.mal...@homicidalteddybear.net> wrote: >> >> If your *reason* for wanting to remove rust is the compile time, bear >> in mind there is also a rust-bin package these days. There are an >> increasingly large number of major packages that have rust as a >> dependency, so it's getting harder and harder to get away from. >> Obviously anything from the mozilla foundation, but there's a lot of >> others too. >> >> Miles >> >> On Thu, 12 May 2022 at 10:25, Julien Roy <jul...@jroy.ca> wrote: >>> >>> You need to remove all packages that depend on virtual/rust >>> To see which ones do, run `emerge -pv --depclean virtual/rust` >>> >>> Julien >>> >>> >>> >>> May 11, 2022, 20:22 by mansour.alak...@gmail.com: >>> >>> I am trying to avoid installing rust and prevent emerge --update >>> --deep world from installing it again. >>> How to do this ? >>> >>> >>
