Re: something will happen when git requires rust

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On Mon, 2026-07-13 at 16:47 +0800, Zhang Wen wrote:
> Nowadays rust is recommend by git, and when we update to git 3.0 rust
> will become required.
> In the meantime, there's packages that requires git to run the tests,
> such as the shared-mime-info package.
> So if I'm building a simple system running on systemd, polkit will be
> recommended, and glib2 is required by polkit, and shared-mime-info is
> recommended by glib2.
> There's only two options: give up running test for shared-mime-info,
> or take a long time to build rust and then git 3.0.

In BLFS test suite is always considered optional.  So the decision is
left to the user and there's nothing to do for the book.

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Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>

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