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On 03/07/2017 05:40 PM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I was attending SCALE, but now I'm back to answer this. |
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> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 04:46:22PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>> What kind of dependency do we need, anyway? William, are you saying that |
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>> if I upgrade dev-lang/go, then things will break, but if I delete |
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>> dev-lang/go, everything is fine? |
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> Go programs will not *break* if you upgrade or downgrade dev-lang/go, but |
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> they will not get the new features or fixes in the new version of |
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> dev-lang/go until they are rebuilt with the new version. |
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Ha, then I went off on a pointless tangent. |
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How is this situation different from, say, a C program? You need to |
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recompile to get the new GCC optimizations, stack-mumbo-jumbo |
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protections, etc. |
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