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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual -- virtual/go to fix go build time
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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.