Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v5] go-module.eclass: deprecate EGO_SUM

[tastytea]

On 2022-03-05 16:17-0600 William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> +# @CODE
> +#
> +# $ cd /path/to/project
> +# $ GOMODCACHE="${PWD}"/go-mod go mod download -modcacherw
> +# $ tar -acf project-1.0-deps.tar.xz go-mod

What's the reason to use `go mod download` here and not `go mod
vendor`? The former seems to always generate much bigger directories.
For www-apps/hugo it is 1.5G vs. 65M and someone on IRC mentioned that
for another ebuild it is >600M vs 22M.

Kind regards, tastytea