Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Go ebuilds bundling multiple upstream sources

[Zac Medico]

On 06/30/2015 11:12 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
> As I mentioned in my reply to William [1],  we might invent a notion of
> having one ebuild execute another ebuild in order to install static
> dependencies into a temporary build directory. That way, static
> libraries would be built on-demand, and discarded as soon as possible.
>
> [1]
> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/4b150fe36bf9e0ba1eb29b1d695a3193
>

I should note that I'm not very fond of this idea. If the dependencies
have separate ebuilds (like dev-go/*), then you can already use
something like 'emerge --depclean --with-bdeps=n' to remove the static
libraries that aren't needed at run-time.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac