On 5/2/25 2:15 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
If that's the way they see things, it would seem that having a project
dependent on rust should figure high on that project's risk list.
This is ... a non-actionable take, regardless of if I agree with it or not.
Do you expect Gentoo to replace Firefox? pycryptography? a heavily used
SVG library? kernel drivers for interesting (really, mac) hardware?
There's only so much that the downstream distribution has control over,
and I appreciate that Gentoo, generally, has accepted that the state of
the world is that rust can't easily be avoided.
There are a bunch of volunteers keeping the lights on, navigating some
of these pitfalls -- even though they themselves might actually agree
with you -- because they represent the reality of the OSS landscape.
...but complaining about it here is unlikely to actually change
anything, and only dishearten the folks who are trying to keep it all
working. It's nicer to focus our mental energy and time on changes that
are achievable as a project -- or specific, fixable technical issues,
like the wedged install this started with (and the reply with direct
information on how to fix it).
My $.02,
JayF
