Miles, Thank you for your response. The idea of "getting harder and harder" is hard to accept. Gentoo has always been about having choices. Firefox requires rust, but is there a way to disable this ? There must be another way to let the user decide if they need it or not !
And yes, the compile time is one of the factors in not wanting it on my system. The second factor is a natural reaction toward feeling that I am forced to have it. Another reason is the growing collection of compilers and development tools and their build time (gcc, bin-utils, llvm, clang ... etc.) and now rust. Firefox itself takes a lot of time to build, and if rust is a must have, then maybe it is time for me to look into something else. I know there's firefox-bin, and if it doesn't need rust, then maybe it is an option. On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:55 PM Miles Malone <m.mal...@homicidalteddybear.net> wrote: > > If your *reason* for wanting to remove rust is the compile time, bear > in mind there is also a rust-bin package these days. There are an > increasingly large number of major packages that have rust as a > dependency, so it's getting harder and harder to get away from. > Obviously anything from the mozilla foundation, but there's a lot of > others too. > > Miles > > On Thu, 12 May 2022 at 10:25, Julien Roy <jul...@jroy.ca> wrote: > > > > You need to remove all packages that depend on virtual/rust > > To see which ones do, run `emerge -pv --depclean virtual/rust` > > > > Julien > > > > > > > > May 11, 2022, 20:22 by mansour.alak...@gmail.com: > > > > I am trying to avoid installing rust and prevent emerge --update > > --deep world from installing it again. > > How to do this ? > > > > >
