From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 89C31139694 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 22:36:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C554621C0AA; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 22:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 788FC21C028 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 22:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-98-218-46-55.hsd1.md.comcast.net [98.218.46.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0CD1F3416D8 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 22:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual -- virtual/go to fix go build time dependencies To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20170302001801.GA29649@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <20170302105854.189f1f88@gentoo.org> <135e77dc-c443-8dd3-185b-71e743a4b700@gentoo.org> <9049c20c-e5b2-c554-9211-2da7eef055df@gentoo.org> <0902279a-1684-5204-8f3d-33a07bbfbac0@gentoo.org> <98334094-ff07-f4d2-8d4b-0ed482dff63f@gentoo.org> <39a8f38d-86ac-fd4a-7397-e8db6acc4a60@gentoo.org> <20170302213000.6787600a@snowblower> <20170302225331.6d3837b4@gentoo.org> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: <16115a95-b98d-c125-5b43-184085a73b6f@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 17:36:16 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170302225331.6d3837b4@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: aeaa5da4-cb4c-49d1-a869-0de50c168790 X-Archives-Hash: 7cbda934870a0f34a9ba6285ae0418de On 03/02/2017 04:53 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> >> Back on topic: >> >> What kind of dependency do we need, anyway? William, are you saying >> that if I upgrade dev-lang/go, then things will break, but if I delete >> dev-lang/go, everything is fine? > > It's likely like ocaml: you link your programs ~ statically but > everything you link needs to be built with the same compiler. So > that'd be some kind of "build against"-RDEPEND. > The tiny practical part of me thinks it's probably better to add dev-lang/go:= to RDEPEND than it is to create an entirely new class of dependencies to handle this.