Re: [BuildStream] Specifying default dependencies for element kinds

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Thu, 2019-06-13 at 11:38 +0200, Sander Striker wrote:
> While this may be true, I can see the gcc.bst explicitly override the
> build-depends in that case, using the list overwrite operator.  I think it
> is ok for exceptions to see special treatment and syntactic sugar, that way
> the common case can remain free of that.

Yes, definitely. The point of my example was just to demonstrate that
we should support a mechanism for elements to overwrite the list.
However, it's perfectly fine to require an explicit operator or similar
for this as this should be the less common case.

Cheers,
Jürg