> On 28 Nov 2021, at 19:23, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>
> How about if we also add a GO_DEPEND variable, so that eclasshi consumers can
> do something like BDEPEND="go? ( ${GO_DEPEND} )" ?
> --My preference is to go with what we've been doing more recently (do _OPTIONAL) so that consumers handle things properly and we don't have to try account for various cases (this was the problem with eclass variables which add a USE flag or depend only if a USE flag is set). But that said, I can't immediately think of any such annoying edge cases with this idea. It'd be additional to GO_OPTIONAL and it'd ensure a sane baseline Go version is chosen. So, why not?
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