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dev_dependency for bazel_dep #2

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Wyverald opened this issue Jan 19, 2021 · 0 comments
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dev_dependency for bazel_dep #2

Wyverald opened this issue Jan 19, 2021 · 0 comments
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Reintroduce dev_dependency to bazel_dep.

We removed it because of potential BUILD breaks in situations like bazelbuild/bazel#12835. However, not having dev dependencies means that the dependency graph could be cluttered in an unbounded manner. For example, most rulesets depend on bazel_skylib, which uses rules_pkg to manage releases. Without dev dependencies, this means that most Bazel projects would depend on bazel_skylib -> rules_pkg -> rules_python -> {insert crapton of deps here}.

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