Re: $ORIGIN in RPATH suppression

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 02:57:10PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I don't understand where you are coming from.  If a package needs at
> least version X of some dependency (be it rust or something else), and
> pkgsrc has >= X, then there is no problem for pkgsrc.  How old the rust
> version is doesn't really matter, once it's in pkgsrc.

Yes. But currently this creates (IMHO unreasonable and probably serious
amount of) preasure on the (single [or maybe few]) volunteers actually
working on the rust pkg.

Anything that can lighten that burden would be welcome.

> It's certainly an upstream bug to require super-recent versions of
> dependencies, unless there is a really good reason and avoiding such
> would be significantly difficult.  It's also a bug to require a specific
> rust compiler version, rather than a language specification.  But
> upstreams that use rust tend to think this is ok, and while I'm
> philosophically in agreement that filing bugs makes sense, it seems
> unlikely to be productive.

Yes, I can see that this might see hostile responses, but I am not sure
it is always fruitless. Tough to properly communicate and maybe not worth
trying.

Martin