[justinclift]

Errr why?

They come with no associated bits to hook them into the rest of the system. eg no launch/process monitoring things (start-at-boot and similar, metadata and "package info" for being able to pull down upgrades along with other system packages.

Go stuff is fine for a lot of deployment cases, but in production situations the rest of the er... crap that normal packages come with does serve some important purposes. At least on *nix systems. :)