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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by dikaiosune on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:00PM (#14754234)
I believe Firefox as of recent versions requires a Rust compiler to be available, and that's a pretty bread-and-butter application to have in your distro's package repository.
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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by Paul-ish on Thursday July 13, 2017 @05:22PM (#14765369)
You should only need a rust compiler to compile Firefox.
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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by dikaiosune on Thursday July 13, 2017 @06:50PM (#14765981)
Most distributions require that packages in the repositories are built with tools from the distribution.
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