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# Rust Prevention and Removal (Gentoo)
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(not affiliated with the actual evapo-rust product)
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This repo contains mask, use and accept files for portage to keep Rust away from your systems.
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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.
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The files are pretty self explanatory by themselves but I'll go over some specifics:
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## polkit
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- critical (?) system component using spidermonkey as its js engine
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- yes it has a javascript engine, wtf right :/
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- spidermonkey is a fuckhuge dependency for something like this
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- spidermonkey versions past 78 all require rust to build
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- it is a mozilla project after all
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- polkit, which depends on spidermonkey, also depends on rust by proxy
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### how to mitigate
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- compile polkit with duktape instead of spidermonkey for its js engine
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- duktape is much smaller than spidermonkey
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- polkit w/ duktape hasn't been mainstreamed yet, but patches are available
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- add the miramir overlay and then enable the duktape use flag for polkit
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- I might host the duktape patched ebuilds myself at some point
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## librsvg
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- gnome project (god what the fuck)
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- head dev = rustification freak
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- used by literally anything that requires svg support
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- seriously, try masking this package outright and see how many packages really depend on this (spoiler: a fucking insane amount)
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- newer versions are fully made in rust
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### how to mitigate
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- 2.40 is the last version before rustification
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- still hosted at ::gentoo
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- who knows how long that will last...
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- will probably have to host the ebuild for this at some point
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- mask librsvg versions later than 2.40 (or rather anything after 2.41)
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- explicitly enable version 2.40 |