Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: golang-1.8 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Also, the MTA metaphor is a bit of a non-starter here, given that all
MTAs in the archive conflict with each other. They're not co-
installable at all.
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Alternatives are not used for toolchain packages. Toolchain defaults
packages are used to define the *distro* default for a compiler for a
release. GCC works the same way.
The only difference here between golang and GCC is that GCC ships
/usr/bin/gcc-X.X, while golang ships binaries in /usr/lib
Again, the philosophy of needing to install golang-go to get a go on
$PATH is wrong.
Think of different MTAs a Linux system can have and co-exist -- Never
ever there is a need of a meta MTA package for any particular MTA
program to act like MTA (i.e., being in PATH and being used by the
system).
