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.
