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The problem is updating the rust toolchain requires testing all other ports with that dependency to make sure nothing broke.
by wbl 7y ago
The problem is updating the rust toolchain requires testing all other ports with that dependency to make sure nothing broke.
- jiveturkey 7y agoit wouldn't necessarily. you could just update rust, build firefox and test that. leave the others alone (with older rust). now if the complaint is solely about rust, not specifically FF, then that's a different story. it might indeed be that FF is the only package using Rust right now?
- int_19h 7y agoBSD ports tree can be thought of as versioned as a whole, and packages are basically a snapshot of one particular state of it. If you update one port, and it's a dev dependency for other ports, their packages will reflect that.
- inferiorhuman 7y agoRight but you will also find versioned ports e.g. gcc4, gcc5, etc. It's not so unreasonable to assume the maintainers could / would do something similar with rust.