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

[Christopher Pinon <cjpinon%secondfloor.xyz@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost> wrote:

> 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.

Ah, okay, thanks.

Yes, rust didn't seem to be a direct dependency of emacs26, so I feel
relieved.

C.