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Re: librsvg



On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:32:10AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> (Really, it's not reasonable of any package that ought to be portable to
> be implemented in a way where it can't run on many systems, and arguably
> unreasonabel even to need hours of CPU time on systems that are newer
> than retrocomputing.  I just looked, and a mac notebook barely 10 years
> old took 10 hours to build rust.  But that issue is not our call.)
>

Is it? We could start shipping rust as a -bin package right now if we
wanted.

Giving up on this ridiculous bootstrapping process seems inevitable given
the amount of problems it causes pkgsrc users.


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