Re: no emacs/X binary packages considered bad, and worse than emacs with svg

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

Christopher Pinon <cjpinon%secondfloor.xyz@localhost> writes:

> I don't know whether my vote counts, but as I said in my thread about
> emacs and rust, I support your proposal to disable the svg option by
> default for emacs.

We're not really voting; I'm looking for articulated rationale and
disregarding "one would think" speculation :-) But, people concurring
abotu the plan is still useful.

> Naturally, it's fun to be able to view svg files in emacs(!), but for
> me, the dependency chain "emacs (with svg) --> librsvg --> rust"
> outweighs this fun.
>
> In addition, as far as graphics in emails are concerned, my strong
> impression is that svg files are *much* rarer than png or jpg or gif
> files (but perhaps my experience isn't typical).

That's good to hear another view; that was my impression too.

> As a follow-up to my thread about emacs and rust, what I ended up doing
> was to install the rust amd64 binary from cdn.netbsd.org, which seemed
> to work (I was able to compile librsvg), so in this particular instance,
> I kept the option svg for emacs. (By the way, the rust amd64 binary on
> cdn.netbsd.org, although in the 8.1 directory, appears to have been
> built for 8.0.)

rust does sort of work.  Apparently the most recent 8.0 i386 and amd64
builds built rust.  On amd64 even librsvg and emacs built.  But on i386,
librsvg failed:

http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/reports/2019Q2/NetBSD-8.0-i386/20190823.1109/librsvg-2.44.14nb1/build.log


I would like to have confidence that:

  emacs, librsvg, and other things that depend on librsvg are avaiable
  for both i386 and amd64

  this can reasonably be expected for 2019Q3 in the first bulk build run