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gnome.scm cannot import (gnu packages rust)

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 31392 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31392: gnome.scm cannot import (gnu packages rust)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 22:25:49 +0200

Hey Marius,

Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> skribis:

> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> I'm trying to update librsvg, which requires "rust".
>>
>> Speaking of which, what are other distros doing?  Are all of them
>> switching to the Rust implementation, or are some keeping the C
>> implementation?
>>
>> Not that I’m fond of C, but adding Rust (which is not bootstrapped,
>> etc.) in this place can be problematic.
>
> I haven't checked a lot of distros, but Arch and Debian Experimental
> have the Rust version already.  There is no maintained C implementation
> any longer AFAIK.  It was officially deprecated in version 2.40.20[0],
> which is what we have right now.

Oh well, thanks for the info!

Ludo’.

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