Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/3] dev-vcs/hub: migrate to go-module.eclass
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:14:19
Message-Id: ebac5e04-9975-2760-bb02-6c50b3373d77@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/3] dev-vcs/hub: migrate to go-module.eclass by Mike Gilbert
1 On 9/12/19 5:23 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 >
3 > Putting the dependencies in RDEPEND means users get stuck with yet
4 > another copy of the code installed, in addition to the copy that is
5 > statically linked into all reverse dependencies.
6 >
7 > It's not a very good solution to the problem.
8 >
9
10 No argument there. The elegant solution to static linking is to not do
11 it. But I guess that's off the table? So now we're trying to find the
12 best not very good solution.

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