I'm responsible for that BUILD file. Here's why I did it. Every team at Google stores its code in a single shared monolithic repository with petabytes of code:

I'm responsible for that BUILD file. Here's why I did it. Every team at Google stores its code in a single shared monolithic repository with petabytes of code: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub45424.html http://research.google.com/pubs/pub45424.html The Nomulus BUILD files you see in the GitHub repository are actually identical to the ones we use internally. In order to make the BUILD the same both internally and externally, we needed to have some BUILD files in the open source repository, which at first glance, appear to be superfluous. The reason why @guava//jar is mapped to //java/com/google/common/collect is because that's what it's called in the internal repository. By creating this alias, we don't have to update the hundreds of other deps=[...] lines that reference it. In the future, our tooling will improve and we will no longer need those files. But for the time being, they're a good workaround.