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Animats on Feb 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: January 28th Incident Report

"But there are package management systems and other stuff depending on being able to download from Github."

Rust program building, for example, seems to require that Github be up.

steveklabnik on Feb 4, 2016 [–]

Only if you need to fetch new dependencies.

Animats on Feb 4, 2016 | [–]

Or do a clean rebuild.

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