[VOL-1386]  This commit add "dep" as the package management tool
for voltha-go.

Change-Id: I52bc4911dd00a441756ec7c30f46d45091f3f90e
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics/metrics.go b/vendor/github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics/metrics.go
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+// Go port of Coda Hale's Metrics library
+//
+// <https://github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics>
+//
+// Coda Hale's original work: <https://github.com/codahale/metrics>
+package metrics
+
+// UseNilMetrics is checked by the constructor functions for all of the
+// standard metrics.  If it is true, the metric returned is a stub.
+//
+// This global kill-switch helps quantify the observer effect and makes
+// for less cluttered pprof profiles.
+var UseNilMetrics bool = false