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1. Fabio Valentini (decathorpe@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 01:23:22 JST Fabio Valentini

   strange thought:

   If I got 1$ per month for every package I maintain for Fedora Linux, that would basically be enough money to live on ...

   Popular packages I'm responsible for include:

   - the new Sequoia based GPG backend for RPM (present on *every single Fedora 38 install*)
   - CLI tools like ripgrep, exa, lsd, bat
   - Rust bindings for GLib, GTK3, GTK4, GStreamer, etc. (which are used to build librsvg2, gnome-tour, helvum, etc.)

   so ... who wants to adopt some packages? 😁
   https://github.com/sponsors/decathorpe

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 02:52:09 JST Aral Balkan

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     @decathorpe Bloody hell, given how much money Red Hat/IBM have I’m appalled they’re not sponsoring your work.

   • Fabio Valentini (decathorpe@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 03:26:13 JST Fabio Valentini

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral Red Hat chooses to do Rust packages in a really awful way in RHEL, so I guess they don't "need" anyone to do it well in Fedora ...

     I've also talked with people who work at Red Hat, and apparently there isn't even an organizational unit where this work would fit in - there is no "Rust team", just various teams with projects that now include Rust code, but they all "cook their own soup" (not sure how well this German idiom translates to English)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 03:26:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     @decathorpe Sorry to hear it. Rust packages make perfect sense for Fedora Silverblue.

     In fact, having used it for a while now, for command-line tools cargo is my favourite way to install packages (it helps that nearly all the best command-line tools today are written in Rust).

     I *really* need to write something about how instead of “run everything in a container” all we need for Fedora Silverblue is a package manager that installs to your home directory instead of into system directories…

   • Fabio Valentini (decathorpe@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 03:35:32 JST Fabio Valentini

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral Flatpak works great for this ... but it's awful for CLI apps.

     Side note: Parts of rpm-ostree are written in Rust, and the package for it is one of the worst we have. 😆

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 03:35:32 JST Aral Balkan

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     @decathorpe Yeah, definitely. I mean for CLI apps :)