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Hi all, |
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I was attending SCALE, but now I'm back to answer this. |
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 04:46:22PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> What kind of dependency do we need, anyway? William, are you saying that |
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> 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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Go programs will not *break* if you upgrade or downgrade dev-lang/go, but |
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they will not get the new features or fixes in the new version of |
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dev-lang/go until they are rebuilt with the new version. |
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If you remove dev-lang/go, all Go programs on your system will run |
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because they have everything they need from the Go libraries statically |
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linked into them. |
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dev-lang/go is a build time, not a runtime dependency, but dev-lang/go:= |
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means nothing unless it is in RDEPEND. |
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What I need is a way to force all go programs on your system to rebuild |
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when the version of dev-lang/go on your system changes, and this method |
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with virtuals is the only way I can think of to make that happen and |
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allow you to remove dev-lang/go. |
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William |
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