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.
