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Debian's APT package manager will have a "hard requirement" on Rust from May 2026. This move may make some rather big waves.

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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Unless they absolutely guarantee feature-parity with the existing C-based utils

Is there any reason to think they won't?

Debian is really losing the plot IMO. Glad I switched to Devuan some time ago.

Aren't you just an anti-wayland anti-systemd weirdo? Not that there is anything wrong with using what you want, but pretending they aren't much needed improvements in the long run is ridiculous

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yup, guess I am :) ... for now.

I have tried Wayland a few times over the past few years, probably bad luck on my part with what systems/chipsets I've had every time, that it hasn't been a great experience. But I have read it's getting there, so I expect someday I'll just switch and not really notice the difference there.

As for systemd... yeah I'll be "a wierdo" for the foreseeable future I suppose. Good ol' sysV init scripts, or openrc, have always, and still do, work well enough for me.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 day ago

RIIR projects usually don't have feature parity.