Neat setup. I would point out that this shows some of the problems with the way bazel is managed as a project. You had to fix your build for bazel 8, which isn'

Neat setup. I would point out that this shows some of the problems with the way bazel is managed as a project. You had to fix your build for bazel 8, which isn't great. But the bigger issue is you were forced to adopt rules_cc, which because of their weird adherence to "semantic versioning" means you are now subject to unannounced breaking changes, because rules_cc hasn't hit 1.0. Rules_pkg went through the same problem: it was built in to bazel, then they moved it out into rules_pkg 0.0.1, then the maintainer of rules_pkg felt free to break everything multiple times, mostly for unjustifiable aesthetic reasons.