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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual -- virtual/go to fix go build time dependencies
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On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:18 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> the dependencies for dev-lang/go need to force a rebuild every time the
> compiler is downgraded or upgraded.

This already happens for me. It is working as expected.

> To avoid abusing slot dependencies for dev-lang/go since it is not
> needed at runtime I need to do the following.
>
> I need to introduce virtual/go-1.7.5, virtual/go-1.8 and
> virtual/go-9999. The attachment shows 1.8 but it is the same for all
> versions.
>
> Also, the attached patch needs to be applied to golang-base.eclass.
>
> This is based on the following wiki page:
>
> Ahttps://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Subslots#Using_virtuals_to_expose_multiple_ABIs
>
> Any thoughts?

I don't see how introducing a layer of indirection solves any problem here.