Besides compilers, linkers etc, the core Go[1] toolchain has several utility applications bundled with it. One of these is an app called goinstall[2] which facilitates the download, compilation and installation of third party libraries written in Go. Currently this utility doesn't work very well in the Go package[3] we are working on for the following reasons: 1) It scans the third party source for "Import" statements and treats these as hard dependancies which it will try to install first(from source). At the moment this includes any imports of any of the standard go libraries and looks for the source files. Although we have the goinstall utility in the main Go package, we don't install the standard library source by default. Our Go package currently only installs the library sources either from the .srpm or from the go-doc package (because the godoc utility replicates http://golang.org and generates API docs on the fly from the sources). 2) The goinstall utility is currently installed to /usr/bin (undesirable) It is desireable to have the goinstall utility working well as part of the core Go package, because we currently don't, and cannot, package all the third party libs; although I fully intend to grow the list of popular libs that we do package. Aside from hacking on the goinstall tool to improve it. I'd like to tweak the core Go package some more to make the goinstall tool work well in it's current form so I'd appreciate some feedback on which of the following options would be the most appropriate. 1) Add a "go-devel" to the .spec and bundle the standard library sources & the goinstall tool in this sub package. OR Install the standard library sources with the main Go package. 2) Install "goinstall" binary to /usr/sbin or /usr/local/sbin OR Leave it installed to /usr/bin because Go hackers may optionally have $GOROOT exported to a location in their $HOME. [1] http://golang.org [2] http://golang.org/cmd/goinstall/ [3] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=go&project=devel:languages:g... -- “What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.” - Christopher Hitchens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org