On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 07:44:01AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 03/08/2017 01:27 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:38 PM, William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 07:13:38PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >>> If all dev-go libraries wind up in RDEPEND solely to force rebuilds on > >>> upgrades, why not do the same with the standard library (dev-lang/go)? > >> > >> They should not end up in rdepend at all since we only need them at > >> build-time. > > > > Shouldn't we get rebuilds when the dev-go libraries are upgraded too? > > > > That's what I was getting at. > > Another reading of the PMS reminds me (as Kent pointed out) that > slot-operator deps shouldn't be used for would-be-nice stuff. It says > specifically that := "indicates that the package will break..."
Another option is to not force thisand rely on everyone to use --with-bdeps=y to make the rebuild happen. I'm not sure whether this is a good idea, but it makes sense in a way since we are talking about build-time dependencies. William
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