Re: [PROPOSAL] Builder, a build system integration for Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Then I guess I don't understand what these problems are, and what kind of 
  > solution you are after.  Let's take a concrete example of a popular Rust 
  > program: ripgrep.  All you need to build it is:

  > git clone https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
  > cargo build --release

  > or (even simpler):

  > cargo install ripgrep

  > That (relatively simple) program depends on no less than 37 Rust 
  > libraries, and has two optional build options, "pcre2" and "simd-accel". 
  > If you activate these two options the program depends on 45 libraries. 
  > What would you want do do with those 45 libraries?  What do you mean in 
  > this concrete case by "interactive selection of dependencies based on 
  > their features and requirements"?

Where does cargo get the list of libraries to consider using?
Does it have a default list that it normally considers?
If so, where is that specified?

Are all the libraries in that default list free/libre?

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