There is a new pull request by ericonr against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/ericonr/void-packages goclean https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/28863 [WIP] srcpkgs/: most Go packages shouldn't have git in hostmakedepends. Depending on git for building can sometimes happen due to issue #27690, where instead of using the unpacked tarball, Go clones the package's repository itself, since the tarball we provided doesn't contain the go_import_path we pass to it in the command line. Since we should require as few dependencies as possible, and this measure can help catch issues of building the wrong version of a Go package, we remove git from hostmakedepends where possible. I'm still pulling in packages that do this, will take a while. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/28863.patch is attached