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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by hyperman1 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:50AM (#24340027)
Here is the core of the issue:

https://lwn.net/Articles/118279/

Debian wanted to allow anyone to patch their firefox. Mozilla said OK, but not with our name attached to it.

And this makes sense on some level : No project wants to provide support for someone else's bugs.

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by est31 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:04PM (#24347672)
For a desktop app it's understandable, but tons of scripts rely on the existence of rustc and cargo binaries. If the fork has to rename it to not-rustc just because it added e.g. gcc support, then that's going to break all the scripts.
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