I'm going to merge this PR soon: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/6119
It's going to close issues #1131 and #3080 . It will introduce a new goPackages namespace, as long with go13Packages and go14Packages. It works similarly to other *Packages. Most go packages have been ported to use buildGoPackage. The obvious advantage is that by putting libraries into goPackages they will be shared among most of the tools, and of course easier for you to start developing your own projects with nix-shell and so on. The current state, instead, is that every project on its own define the dependencies. If you have any doubts about this PR being merged please reply to the PR itself, thanks. I will merge the PR in a few days. About the future: honestly I don't think how nodePackages are updated will apply to goPackages. I don't really like the idea to update all the packages at once. So for the time being I please everyone to avoid auto-updating go packages, thanks. Also it's way harder to merge PRs updating such packages (see how many nodePackages PR are left behind because they don't apply anymore, of course). Best regards,
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