Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2] go-module.eclass: deprecate EGO_SUM and call ego instead of go

[Sam James]

> On 27 Feb 2022, at 04:38, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
>
> EGO_SUM can be thousands of lines long in ebuilds, and it leads to
> creating Manifest files that are thousands of lines long.
> It has been determined that vendor tarballs are a better solution if
> upstream doesn't vendor their dependencies.
>
> Also, call the ego helper function instead of calling go directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
> ---

Per comments on IRC, I suggest not removing the EGO_SUM
examples for now until we've got good documentation and tooling
for vendor stuff, and a transition period is completed.

We can do it in a little bit but let's not add the new thing and remove
the old one in the same swoop.

Best,
sam