Re: Surprised that editors/emacs26 has rust as a dependency

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 08:02:41AM +0000, Christopher Pinon wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm on NetBSD-8.1 amd64, using an updated pkgsrc stable.
>> 
>> I started to compile editors/emacs26 (emacs26-26.2) last night and saw
>> that it has rust as a dependency, which surprised me! When I compiled
>> emacs26-26.1 back in April using pkgsrc-2019Q1, rust wasn't a
>> dependency.
>> 
>> Last night, I cut the compilation process short because I didn't want to
>> wait for rust to compile, but I'm wondering: why rust as a dependency?
>> (I haven't yet tried to look into this.)
>
> emacs uses librsvg, parts of which have been written in rust.
>
> You can set
> LIBRSVG_TYPE=c
> to use the older librsvg version that is completely in C, or turn
> off the svg option in emacs.

I wonder if we should make svg default off in emacs.  How many people
actually use that?

(It's amusing that while emacs sort of seems bloated, it is small
compared to rust.)