Request: move travsitives from go.mod to go.sum

Technical Discussion
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Transitive dependencies produce way too much noise in go.mod files.

I have to scroll up and down just to navigate my configuration file.

Transitives represent a leaky abstraction. They belong in go.sum.

Transitives are not something that I normally expect to control directly most of the time. Only depth 1 nodes in the dependency tree belong in go.sum.

It’s probably risky to try to override transitives. But even when I would want to do that, it should be opt-in for any mention of transitives to appear in go.mod.

No other package manager has this problem. Not cargo, RubyGems, NPM, dotnet, cabal, dub, cpan, conan… Just go mod.

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The issue means Go’s go.mod file lists many transitive dependencies, which makes it long and hard to read. You only want to see direct dependencies, while transitive ones should stay in go.sum, since they are usually not controlled manually.