order to a compiler.
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<p>
Dependency analysis does not rely on the actual values of the
variables, only on lexical <i>references</i> to them in the source,
analyzed transitively. For instance, if a variable <code>x</code>'s
initialization expression refers to a function whose body refers to
variable <code>y</code> then <code>x</code> depends on <code>y</code>.
Specifically:
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    From: [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese):
    Instead of aliasing. Aliases are annoying in a number of ways. This is
    specifically bugging me now because they make the action graph harder to
    analyze programmatically. By using aliases here, we would need to handle
    potentially aliased go_binary targets and dereference to the effective
    target.