[gentoo-user] Re: Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?

["Holger Hoffstätte" <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>]

On 2024-10-25 11:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 2024-10-25 00:47:27, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>
>>> Try net-dns/doggo[2]
>>
>> Cool, and it doens't want to install 4 other new packages like
>> bind-tools does.  [OK, two are just account/group packages, so it's
>> not quite as bad as it sounds.]
> 
> It's a Go package though, so it will quietly install a mountain a
> random outdated static libraries from github.

What? No, it will not. Those dependencies are absolutely not installed,
they are only used for building & linking the executable.

$equery f doggo
  * Searching for doggo ...
  * Contents of net-dns/doggo-1.0.5:
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/doggo
/usr/share
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/doggo
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_doggo

I could not agree more that Go is dumb and basically useless for shared
infrastructure, but that train has sailed.

Holger