Re: Surprised that editors/emacs26 has rust as a dependency

[Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 08:02:41AM +0000, Christopher Pinon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm on NetBSD-8.1 amd64, using an updated pkgsrc stable.
> 
> I started to compile editors/emacs26 (emacs26-26.2) last night and saw
> that it has rust as a dependency, which surprised me! When I compiled
> emacs26-26.1 back in April using pkgsrc-2019Q1, rust wasn't a
> dependency.
> 
> Last night, I cut the compilation process short because I didn't want to
> wait for rust to compile, but I'm wondering: why rust as a dependency?
> (I haven't yet tried to look into this.)

emacs uses librsvg, parts of which have been written in rust.

You can set
LIBRSVG_TYPE=c
to use the older librsvg version that is completely in C, or turn
off the svg option in emacs.
 Thomas