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Date:      Fri, 5 Dec 2025 09:49:29 -0800
From:      Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
Cc:        freebsd-go@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Deprecating old Go versions (and the ports that use them)
Message-ID:  <07BEEA86-6550-48FA-92D4-A205C9024D30@iitbombay.org>
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> 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?



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