Hi all, I was attending SCALE, but now I'm back to answer this.
On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 04:46:22PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > 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? Go programs will not *break* if you upgrade or downgrade dev-lang/go, but they will not get the new features or fixes in the new version of dev-lang/go until they are rebuilt with the new version. If you remove dev-lang/go, all Go programs on your system will run because they have everything they need from the Go libraries statically linked into them. dev-lang/go is a build time, not a runtime dependency, but dev-lang/go:= means nothing unless it is in RDEPEND. What I need is a way to force all go programs on your system to rebuild when the version of dev-lang/go on your system changes, and this method with virtuals is the only way I can think of to make that happen and allow you to remove dev-lang/go. William
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