From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual -- virtual/go to fix go build time dependencies
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:56:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170302145637.51df7c0d@snowblower> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9049c20c-e5b2-c554-9211-2da7eef055df@gentoo.org>
On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:47:35 -0500
Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 03/02/2017 09:24 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> >>
> >> In other words, the ":=" only does something special in RDEPEND.
> >> That makes sense when you think of it as meaning "the thing will
> >> break" rather than "I want to do a rebuild." The only reason it's
> >> not an error to put them in DEPEND is because it would annoy
> >> everyone doing DEPEND="${RDEPEND}".
> >
> > Portage has interesting behavior for ":=" in DEPEND: it varies
> > depending on your "with-bdeps" setting.
> >
>
> This is why we can't have nice things.
Actually you can't have nice things because the labels proposal was
voted down for "being invented by the wrong people".
--
Ciaran McCreesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-02 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-02 0:18 [gentoo-dev] new virtual -- virtual/go to fix go build time dependencies William Hubbs
2017-03-02 3:45 ` Mike Gilbert
2017-03-02 3:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jonathan Callen
2017-03-02 9:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alexis Ballier
2017-03-02 14:03 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-02 14:24 ` Mike Gilbert
2017-03-02 14:47 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-02 14:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2017-03-02 15:14 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-02 19:05 ` Zac Medico
2017-03-02 19:24 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-02 21:06 ` Zac Medico
2017-03-02 21:25 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-02 21:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2017-03-02 21:46 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-02 21:53 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-02 22:36 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-02 23:11 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-07 22:40 ` William Hubbs
2017-03-07 23:51 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-08 0:02 ` Patrick McLean
2017-03-08 0:13 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-08 0:38 ` William Hubbs
2017-03-08 6:27 ` Zac Medico
2017-03-08 12:44 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-08 19:20 ` William Hubbs
2017-03-08 19:28 ` Zac Medico
2017-03-09 0:49 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-09 15:36 ` William Hubbs
2017-03-09 16:06 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-03-10 7:53 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-03-10 14:44 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-03-08 8:07 ` Kent Fredric
2017-03-08 8:18 ` Michał Górny
2017-03-02 21:34 ` Alexis Ballier
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