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On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 16:46:22 -0500 |
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Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 03/02/2017 04:30 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > The point is to specify dependencies declaratively. A dependency |
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> > expresses a dependency, not an action. If you can't express the |
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> > kind of dependency you need, then we need either labels or another |
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> > *DEPEND variable to take care of it, not a bodge. |
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> In the meantime, if you give people an official bodge-maker, they'll |
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> use it. |
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> Back on topic: |
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> What kind of dependency do we need, anyway? William, are you saying |
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> that if I upgrade dev-lang/go, then things will break, but if I delete |
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> dev-lang/go, everything is fine? |
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It's likely like ocaml: you link your programs ~ statically but |
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everything you link needs to be built with the same compiler. So |
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that'd be some kind of "build against"-RDEPEND. |
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