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by bscphil 1326 days ago
Firefox, on the other hand, seems to download a ton of Rust packages during the build as opposed to vendoring. (Debian maintains a bunch of hacks to allow vendoring all the Rust components, but this isn't the default or the approach taken by other distros, e.g. Arch Linux.)
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glandium 1326 days ago
No, Firefox vendors everything it uses. Debian has no patches wrt vendoring of Rust code in Firefox. Source: I work for Mozilla and maintain the Debian Firefox package.
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bscphil 1326 days ago
Thank you, I appreciate the correction. Did this change at some point in the past? I seem to remember the Arch Linux package downloading a ton of Rust stuff at one point.
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glandium 1326 days ago
No, it has always used vendored crates. Well, technically, it wasn't using vendored crates until https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1298422 , but before that, there were only a limited number of crates in use, and their only dependencies were local, so practically, that's the same thing.
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