Distros are always out of date, sometimes hilariously. Official in my parlance means "from the go team"
> On 12 Sep 2016, at 17:06, Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote: > >> On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 18:58 -0700, Dave Cheney wrote: >> An 'official' deb/apt/yum repo for Go would be much >> appreciated, https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10965 > > Go stuff is packaged for Debian and Fedora, they are the official > Debian and Fedora packages. Any other packages in any other repository > would be unofficial! > > Given this is the case what is the benefit of another repository? > Wouldn't this just lead to replication of effort or decay of the > official packages. > > Many people running servers will only use the official repositories, so > an extra repository would not be used. Having Go packages in the > official repository is good for Go. > > -- > Russel. > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
