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 E5FBE139694 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:56:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F3DDE0C86; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:56:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-x242.google.com (mail-wm0-x242.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::242]) (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 ABD2BE0C68 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:56:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-x242.google.com with SMTP id v190so6879045wme.3 for ; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 06:56:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20161025; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=bvyvLR+p42ekVno7lc/ow7JHW+wbxFzCb6NY17Zi1lg=; b=sHMtNFTMv+Rbx2Xn3/uXHUyOi1DI3M4wXa1nyekBigzD3kvvmQ+IyDwMnvEEgGBMlV BB4/utAOMAlPTDVXoMIn7hWKSUGRtEbRf/eaKt/YJpLIyhcOr4y6v8bEEvA8yk59xWzI uP6pPnqaxFWZrHpribI7f/06LJDKSV8Xi11JNfiWZPpihuC+0gYOqN+6Nf+QptBqtc7z ordAhTc+SVboOCO6wJYe0ff1Y2X+diOFGYNCfN83azEjKs1ySCxlB67JnPgUiR3NmyUy kmR3hemyrqDjPTjBdcYG+lqgE7p/Jo9UTJbcdxHBxSJ19vSg9bhZZHhKNZ03MJBCnJvY AaFg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bvyvLR+p42ekVno7lc/ow7JHW+wbxFzCb6NY17Zi1lg=; b=N+Mj3ffn9tFXTAVLsVr+RSZPUkXF1UwvFx0HLLhVLQI4i5de41bXRUaABmsIJUc4cO KUsZdMMLkeDwQmw8eBLMzz5IWZDrF1CAiq/QWlFhQOp7oY937utNZMfePcfUOjZJ0HoP F8a/CLiWkH0wsIklHEi0G65uWXvmV8OoZHIMTBxmOMDourTkjkNxWJ9dzifYOhRMsyjh GMenrQ1GyVHNConD5YxXgTq3a4LkRsKCrkAZgnv/Ku3EKZ49skuH02XQXwjzVQwBaMmd 2Oi6NjMMwuWK0k3Pno/BbyBOK0E/YjX6YyrUrvRXrfrJ824x+hnK3XxBsB/W1xf/w3z0 TH1g== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39mZlBSWiNWb1xmyz0lO13mGqJ4zHjeTJizOMNbKelDooUpl9GL30eoFLDYJf8mT7Q== X-Received: by 10.28.210.139 with SMTP id j133mr8564730wmg.67.1488466603233; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 06:56:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowblower (cpc14-broo7-2-0-cust7.14-2.cable.virginm.net. [82.0.20.8]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m139sm2164518wma.2.2017.03.02.06.56.42 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 02 Mar 2017 06:56:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:56:37 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual -- virtual/go to fix go build time dependencies Message-ID: <20170302145637.51df7c0d@snowblower> In-Reply-To: <9049c20c-e5b2-c554-9211-2da7eef055df@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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bffc3e49-912e-42ab-9775-7d9d738debbc X-Archives-Hash: e8685758d7bcfd2a4b9b847341a565a9 On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:47:35 -0500 Michael Orlitzky 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