On 03/02/2017 04:53 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> >> 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. >
The tiny practical part of me thinks it's probably better to add dev-lang/go:= to RDEPEND than it is to create an entirely new class of dependencies to handle this.