On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 18:51:12 -0500 Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> 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.
