Will snapd allow me to use an alternate location for $GOPATH?

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Hi,

I recently installed the go snap from michael.hudson@ubuntu.com (id: Md1HBASHzP4i0bniScAjXGnOII9cEK6e) for doing some development work, and I was hoping to actually move my $GOPATH from $HOME/go to $HOME/development/go in an attempt to make the TLD of my $HOME a bit more tidy

Is this something the snap will observe? e.g. if I were to remove it and re-install it with a different $GOPATH, would it place $GOPATH/pkg/mod in $HOME/development/go instead?

Or is it hard-coded to $HOME/go?

Even better: is there some way I can move it without having to uninstall/reinstall? (assuming it will even observe my $GOPATH, that is…)

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@mwhudson can perhaps answer this … (i also moved your post to the snap category since it is a packaging matter)

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There’s nothing snap specific here I think? Just set GOPATH in your environment and the snapped Go binary will respect that. No need to reinstall (the Go snap doesn’t do anything at install time, fwiw).

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Also worth mentioning the Go snap is packaged with classic confinement, so it has full access to your entire machine. Snaps being isolated to $HOME by default, and all the other quirks of having their own private data directories is only applicable to strict confinement snaps.