Re: Some more rust/cargo insights

[Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>]

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>

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Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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