On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 16:46:22 -0500
Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 03/02/2017 04:30 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > 
> > The point is to specify dependencies declaratively. A dependency
> > expresses a dependency, not an action. If you can't express the
> > kind of dependency you need, then we need either labels or another
> > *DEPEND variable to take care of it, not a bodge.
> >   
> 
> In the meantime, if you give people an official bodge-maker, they'll
> use it.
> 
> Back on topic:
> 
> What kind of dependency do we need, anyway? William, are you saying
> that if I upgrade dev-lang/go, then things will break, but if I delete
> dev-lang/go, everything is fine?

It's likely like ocaml: you link your programs ~ statically but
everything you link needs to be built with the same compiler. So
that'd be some kind of "build against"-RDEPEND.

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