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... except that Visual Studio Installer, the pkg tool on FreeBSD, and others do do various forms of self-update. Visual Studio Installer does exactly what you
by JdeBP 3y ago
... except that Visual Studio Installer, the pkg tool on FreeBSD, and others do do various forms of self-update. Visual Studio Installer does exactly what you describe, updating itself before updating any version of Visual Studio. FreeBSD pkg has an update from the static to the packaged version of itself.
So several things in the world at present work like this; whatever one might say about their being expected, needed, or wanted.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoI think the difference is that the go compiler is not expected to be at the same layer of the system as go modules. Having apt update apt is expected, since apt is just another .deb, having pkg update pkg is expected because pkg is just another package, but this is like running pkg and it deciding that your system is too old so it runs freebsd-update for you.