Can you elaborate on why this package is bad? I need this package because I need to easily change between the gc and gccgo go compilers. I can easily do it with this package and the go package installed at the same time: $ go build -compiler gccgo I can't install both gcc-go and go at the same time because they both provide the go command even though that's unnecessary. I need to do this to switch compilers: # pacman -Rs go # pacman -S gcc-go $ go build # pacman -Rs gcc-go # pacman -S go This package removes the go and gofmt commands but leaves the gccgo command. This removes all conflicts with the go package in [community]. As I said before you can use the -compiler option to use the gccgo compiler.