Re: Deprecating old Go versions (and the ports that use them)

In reply to: Adam Weinberger : "Deprecating old Go versions (and the ports that use them)"
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From: Bakul Shah <bakul_at_iitbombay.org>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:49:29 UTC

> On Dec 5, 2025, at 6:48 AM, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> wrote:
> 
> I just scheduled 3/4 of our Go ports for removal, along with 75 ports. I want to explain why, and what we should do about it.
> 
> TL;DR--75 ports need to try altering USES=go:1.2x -> USES=go, because likely none of the ports actually need to be deleted!


Dumb question: Why not unilaterally update all these ports to USES=go and commit
the ones that compile instead of removing them?