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

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

nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 11:38:28AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 10:13:54AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > We *really* should keep the C version as default for now.
> > I complained upstream, but of course they don't see the pain this causes.
> > 
> > Martin
> 
> We really shouldn't return to an unmaintained version of a library
> as a default because the maintained version takes slightly longer
> to build.
> 
> ... which is mostly the result of other choices that have been made
> in pkgsrc regarding the way the rust compiler is packaged anyway.
> 
> The language is only going to become more unavoidable as time goes on,
> we can't run away forever. Best to make installing it less painful
> for our users, for example, with a binary package...
> 
> The C version can live forever on non-llvm platforms, until it inevitably
> stops working with newer software.

It turns out that rust and librsvg caused a bit of trauma in the Debian
camp last year:

"Debian, Rust, and librsvg": https://lwn.net/Articles/771355/

The article is an interesting read, and the comments following the
article as well.

C.