Rust Prevention and Removal (Gentoo)

(not affiliated with the actual evapo-rust product)

This repo contains mask, use and accept files for portage to keep Rust away from your systems.

I don't like how people are forcing this language and I certainly don't like the so called "people" that use it. No I will not elaborate any further.

The files are pretty self explanatory by themselves but I'll go over some specifics:

polkit

• critical (?) system component using spidermonkey as its js engine
  • yes it has a javascript engine, wtf right :/
• spidermonkey is a fuckhuge dependency for something like this
• spidermonkey versions past 78 all require rust to build
  • it is a mozilla project after all
• polkit, which depends on spidermonkey, also depends on rust by proxy

how to mitigate

• compile polkit with duktape instead of spidermonkey for its js engine
  • duktape is much smaller than spidermonkey
• polkit w/ duktape hasn't been mainstreamed yet, but patches are available
  • add the miramir overlay and then enable the duktape use flag for polkit
  • I might host the duktape patched ebuilds myself at some point

librsvg

• gnome project (god what the fuck)
• head dev = rustification freak
• used by literally anything that requires svg support
  • seriously, try masking this package outright and see how many packages really depend on this (spoiler: a fucking insane amount)
• newer versions are fully made in rust

how to mitigate

• 2.40 is the last version before rustification
• still hosted at ::gentoo
  • who knows how long that will last...
  • will probably have to host the ebuild for this at some point
• mask librsvg versions later than 2.40 (or rather anything after 2.41)
• explicitly enable version 2.40