Re: %base-packages and default grub theme depend on rust

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 02:33:35PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 05:36:52PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> skribis:
> > 
> > > This is because the default grub theme generates a .png from an .svg
> > > ... using guile-rsvg, which uses librsvg, which uses rust ...
> > 
> > How about using a guile-rsvg variant that depends on ‘librsvg-2.40’, the
> > last version written in C?
> > 
> > That’s easy to do and would address the immediate problem.
> 
> I bet we could switch it to use guile-cairo. Also, is guile-png too low
> level?

My experiments with this didn't show it as possible.

I like vagrant's idea about using the older librsvg for the guile-rsvg
used here, or just pre-generating the png itself and adding it to the
guix-artwork repo and using it from there.


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