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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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