Say No to Gnulib
10 months ago
- #Rust
- #Package Management
- #GNU
- Criticism of GNU tools, particularly Gnulib, for being outdated, difficult to build, and non-reproducible.
- Advocacy for Rust-based alternatives like Uutils coreutils due to better build systems and reliability.
- Debian's poor packaging practices highlighted, especially with Rust dependencies and bcachefs-tools.
- Nixpkgs' approach to Rust packaging praised for efficiency and incremental rebuilds.
- Announcement of a new system named 'Cull' aimed at solving package management and build system issues.