On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 06:41:41PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Am 07.06.21 um 18:26 schrieb Hartmut Goebel:
> > > Another path we should checkout is to see what Debian does. My
> > > understanding is that they figured something out.  Worth a shot, but
> > > I’d rather the problem be fixed upstream. It will just take
> > > collaboration.
> > 
> > I did not check their tollchain lately, but package-earch still does not
> > show many packages <https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=experimental&searchon=names&keywords=rust>.
> > Last time I check, they basically do what guix does: compile everything
> > from source - again and again.
> > 
> Just checked: Debian has quite some source packages [1], which even list
> "binary" packages (which are development packages). Anyhow it seems as if
> these are just the source again [2]
> 
> [1] <https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=rust&searchon=sourcenames&suite=stable&section=all>
> [2]
> <https://packages.debian.org/buster/amd64/librust-build-const-dev/filelist>
> 

My understanding is that they pool together all the sources that they
have and then build all the rust packages in one go.

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