Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual -- virtual/go to fix go build time dependencies

[Patrick McLean]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 18:51:12 -0500
Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:

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

You also need to recompile to get security bugs fixed. With go it's not
just compiler options, it's also the standard library updates that need
a recompile to get.