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|    Henrik Carlqvist to noel    |
|    Re: as Peter Schilling once said    |
|    08 May 25 05:15:58    |
      From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com              On Thu, 08 May 2025 06:46:56 +1000, noel wrote:       > the loss of another slackware based host provider to debian 'cause       > current libs/progs fail builds, previously that could be tolerated so       > the near 6 years between 14.2 and 15.0 was an annoyance but survivable,       > too many brain washed fools falling for the "its cool" /cough/ move to       > jumping on the rust bandwagon without understanding its limitations and       > non/short backwards compatibility has ensured it wont be 6 years waiting       > this time, crikey cant even build clamav now days and last version of it       > that was supported without the rust virus is now formally EOL too, so       > said provider has already had to move several machines to debian for       > critical ops, and a decision to move everything else there mid this year       > is ticking away, business must win out over loyalty              From the ChangeLog of Slackware 15.0:              +--------------------------+       Thu Apr 3 22:37:49 UTC 2025       extra/rust-for-mozilla/rust-1.86.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.       +--------------------------+              I suppose that package is there only for being able to build newer       software packages depending on newer versions of rust?              regards Henrik              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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