On 9/16/19 11:35 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 11:01:38AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
>> For packages that I maintain, I'd prefer to continue using EGO_VENDOR to
>> even with packages using go.mod. I hope that this go-module.class will
>> not preclude this sort of usage. For example, the latest go-tools ebuild
>> uses EGO_VENDOR together with GOFLAGS="-mod=vendor":
>>
>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8cc6d401139526e2f9a6dbadbd31f0ff2387705f
> 
> Can you elaborate on why you want to keep EGO_VENDOR?
> 
> The "go mod vendor" command above downloads all the correct versions
> of the dependencies and puts them in the vendor directory, so I'm not
> sure why you would need the EGO_VENDOR variable.

EGO_VENDOR eliminates to need to generate and host monolithic tarballs
containing vendored dependencies. It's more space-efficient in the sense
that each vendored dependency is stored in a separate tarball, so
multiple ebuilds can share the same tarball if the version of a
particular vendored dependency has not changed.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac