Re: librsvg

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It might be worth reading into what other dependent OS and PMs
do. Here's a relatively recent thread by Guix:
https://www.mail-archive.com/guix-devel%gnu.org@localhost/msg46696.html

I do agree it's immensely expensive to build rust right now.
I've been through the old process in Guix (before they
simplified the bootstrap, resulting in a shorter graph), which
meant building mrustc and then 6 or so rust versions + the testsuites.
A rather recent system still took a couple of days to complete it.

Hauke Fath transcribed 919 bytes:
> On Tue, 28 May 2019 15:23:51 +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 
> [rust based librsvg]
> 
> > Do we just forget about the C version?
> > 
> > Or should we make librsvg-c and librsvg-rust and make libsrv/bl3.mk
> > include one or the other based on the platform?
> 
> Well, from what I have seen, rust is a bear to bootstrap (once a 
> fortnight), and I can certainly think of machines that will run Xsane, 
> Netsurf, Gnumeric, or MATE, but not build rust in any acceptable time.
> 
> Unless (until) the C based version gets de-supported by the depending 
> packages, I would suggest providing librsvg-c, both port-based and as a 
> user-settable option.
> 
> Cheerio,
> hauke
> 
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