Mastodawn

#gentoo question for all you beautiful intelligent #gentoo mains out there: is installing rust packages via portage pointless? I installed media-sound/wiremix thinking ooo no new dependencies and it installed a zillion "crates" out of band. or is that probably why the package is masked currently?

EDIT: winning answer: that is normal, but portage will update it at least (among other things)

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V 2d ago

@aeva Yeah, it's a hazard of compiling anything written in rust from source, I had to sit through the same process on slackware for an RSS reader. At least portage handling it for you makes maintaining the giant pile of crates rust drags along with it simple.

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aeva 2d ago

@miss_rodent i've been having so much fun seeing what each new thing I install wants, and it's really sucks the fun out when something is like trust me bro don't look

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aeva 2d ago

@miss_rodent i guess if my program's dependency tree was longer than an unspooled human intestinal tract i'd probably also feel a bit self conscious about people taking a look too lol

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@aeva Yeah, though iirc most of the crates it ends up installing aren't even 'dependencies' for the program itself - it's just the base clusterfuck needed to have a functional rust build environment at all.