[HN Gopher] rustup in official apt repositories: starting from D...
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       rustup in official apt repositories: starting from Debian 13 and
       Ubuntu 24.04
        
       Author : aflukasz
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-03-20 19:34 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (rust-lang.github.io)
        
       | pornel wrote:
       | This is big, because Rust and Debian have a philosophical
       | disagreement how software should be updated, and so far this has
       | left Debian users with a Rust package that is not supported by a
       | significant portion of the Rust ecosystem.
       | 
       | Rust has an "evergreen" approach to updates, like Chrome,
       | focusing on making updates so easy and backwards-compatible that
       | there's nothing stopping users from always using the latest
       | version. Debian prefers quite the opposite, and they'd rather
       | keep outdated software with known bugs than to risk updating and
       | bringing new bugs.
       | 
       | Having rustup-init is a compromise, allowing Debian users to have
       | an up-to-date non-Debian Rust version, without `curl | sh`.
        
       | arisudesu wrote:
       | I understand that rustup can be convenient, but I don't get why
       | they insist on using this tool. It should be enough to distribute
       | the toolchain and std as a zip file.
        
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