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Subject: bug#31392: gnome.scm cannot import (gnu packages rust)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 22:25:49 +0200
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To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
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Hey Marius,

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Marius Bakke <mbakke@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=E2=80=99m fond of C, but adding Rust (which is not bootstrapp=
ed,
>> 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=E2=80=99.