Heads-up on Chromium M115+: Rust is a dependency

Ryan Lahfa <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:23:07 +0200
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Hello there,

Through this
https://security.googleblog.com/2023/01/supporting-use-of-rust-in-chromium.html,
we noticed that Chromium M115+ ships with a bundled binary Rust compiler
now, this may be of interest for distribution who want to assert control
over the Chromium toolchain.

We replaced it in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/243319 in NixOS.

M115 do not ship with production Rust code, so we do not know yet if our
approach is valid.

Kind regards,
-- 
Ryan Lahfa, NixOS developer