Wouldn’t initiatives like rust-dev[0] help with that? I know that Debian is also packaging Rust this way[1].
I think this was tried long time ago in rust-overlay and failed at the end because the dependency graph was incredibly big. In fact you can see it on the wiki, this is larger than _the bigger_ Haskell packages.
I guess the simplest explanation is that software is growing larger,
This is not only the case of Rust, but Go, JAVA and .NET and maybe some other projects. Self-bootstrap anyone? :)
Can this growth be explained?Is it expected to continue at this rate?
Graph is just showing the overall growth, if we associate distfiles to packages we will get the answers.
W dniu 15.03.2024 o 16:40, Hoël Bézier pisze:
I guess the simplest explanation is that software is growing larger, and in the end we should be expecting to adding new packages faster than removing dead ones. Add to that the grotesque inefficiency of modern programming languages such as Go and Rust.Wouldn’t initiatives like rust-dev[0] help with that? I know that Debian is also packaging Rust this way[1].[0]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Rust/rust-dev [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/Rust Hoël
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