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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual -- virtual/go to fix go build time dependencies
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 12:44:18
Message-Id: 2e5e4aa2-5979-800c-1689-d26915be64b1@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual -- virtual/go to fix go build time dependencies by Zac Medico
1 On 03/08/2017 01:27 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:38 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3 >> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 07:13:38PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
4 >>> If all dev-go libraries wind up in RDEPEND solely to force rebuilds on
5 >>> upgrades, why not do the same with the standard library (dev-lang/go)?
6 >>
7 >> They should not end up in rdepend at all since we only need them at
8 >> build-time.
9 >
10 > Shouldn't we get rebuilds when the dev-go libraries are upgraded too?
11 >
12
13 That's what I was getting at.
14
15 Another reading of the PMS reminds me (as Kent pointed out) that
16 slot-operator deps shouldn't be used for would-be-nice stuff. It says
17 specifically that := "indicates that the package will break..."

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