Re: maintaining bulk-{small,medium,large}

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

>> Long ago, someone said something like "If I wanted pkgbin instead of
>> pkgsrc, I'd just run Debian" and I thought it was quite apt!
>
> There is some sense in that.  However, for rust, you will be
> using the same bits that go into the rust-bin package for
> bootstrapping the rust build itself.  I think rust itself a
> couple of versions ago got the option to bootstrap using an
> already-installed rust, but the pkgsrc package has not been
> adapted to make that an option (yet).

Agreed that the rust world is troubled :-)   I am very sympathetic to
the struggles of guix:
   https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Reduced-Binary-Seed-Bootstrap.html

and it would be great to get pkgsrc to be able to build rust with no
binary bootstraps at all.  This is difficult in part because the rust
community thinks it is ok to have each compiler version depend on the
previous.  Go used to be great about this, with go14 in C and other go
compilers buildable with go14.  Less so now, but the pkgsrc build still
starts from sources.