[bigdubs]

4 ... of its 5 dependencies. It's just missing Viper. We should do a better job with the title here.

See: - [0] https://github.com/muesli/coral/blob/master/go.mod - [1] https://github.com/spf13/cobra/blob/master/go.mod

[racingmars]

...but that fifth dependency makes all the difference!

  $ go mod init foo && go get github.com/spf13/cobra && wc -l go.sum
  758 go.sum

  $ go mod init foo && go get github.com/muesli/coral && wc -l go.sum
  10 go.sum

(Number of lines in go.sum != number of transitive dependencies, of course, but the scale of the difference still hints at how much extra is being pulled into your project.)

[jjnoakes]

Right but that last one is the problem...

https://github.com/muesli/coral/blob/master/go.sum

https://github.com/spf13/cobra/blob/master/go.sum

[lbhdc]

The dependency that was dropped has many dependencies that would get added to your project.

https://github.com/spf13/viper/blob/master/go.mod