Re: $ORIGIN in RPATH suppression

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

Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 02:57:10PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> I don't understand where you are coming from.  If a package needs at
>> least version X of some dependency (be it rust or something else), and
>> pkgsrc has >= X, then there is no problem for pkgsrc.  How old the rust
>> version is doesn't really matter, once it's in pkgsrc.
>
> Yes. But currently this creates (IMHO unreasonable and probably serious
> amount of) preasure on the (single [or maybe few]) volunteers actually
> working on the rust pkg.

Right now, there are packages in wip that aren't being updated in
pkgsrc.   As far as I know nobody is sending nasty notes complaining
that specific people haven't pulled off the necessary heroics.

> Anything that can lighten that burden would be welcome.

So you mean ban anything that needs rust that's newer than a year, so
that it's more ok to not update rust?

What would be useful is for TNF to have targeted fundraisers and pay
people to make rust work.



I have not gotten the impression that people who work on updating rust
feel that they are being hassled by things pending in wip.