Re: New package: macchina-0.9.2

[q66 <q66@users.noreply.github.com>]

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New comment by q66 on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/31361#issuecomment-863355995

Comment:
FWIW, considering rust's overall hostility against distribution packaging (no way to manage dependencies outside of cargo, no dynamic linking of rust libraries, no reasonable way to control fetching of distfiles and so on) i believe the majority of these other rust programs in the repository shouldn't have been packaged either (other distributions in general do not package them)

if there's something we definitely do not need, it's a multitude of *fetch programs that all serve the purpose of making fancy screenshots for /r/unixporn

also fwiw, a program with 158 dependencies and 7.5MB binary size can hardly be considered minimalistic (and regardless of the functionality it implements, it's ridiculous for a *fetch program) and literally noone cares about whether a fetch takes 10ms or 150ms (not to mention that benchmarking against what is literally a shell script - neofetch - is pretty amusing)

so yeah, i still don't see a reason to package every single rust program under the sun especially considering the rust project seemingly does not care for providing reasonable means of packaging them