buildGoModule: use `proxyVendor` instead of `runVend`

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/go-modules/generic/default.nix b/pkgs/development/go-modules/generic/default.nix
index f00ca1984ec..753dcfab370 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/go-modules/generic/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/go-modules/generic/default.nix
@@ -26,12 +26,10 @@
 , vendorSha256
 # Whether to delete the vendor folder supplied with the source.
 , deleteVendor ? false
-# Whether to run the vend tool to regenerate the vendor directory.
-# This is useful if any dependency contain C files.
-, runVend ? false
 # Whether to fetch (go mod download) and proxy the vendor directory.
-# This is useful if any dependency has case-insensitive conflicts
-# which will produce platform dependant `vendorSha256` checksums.
+# This is useful if your code depends on c code and go mod tidy does not
+# include the needed sources to build or if any dependency has case-insensitive
+# conflicts which will produce platform dependant `vendorSha256` checksums.
 , proxyVendor ? false
 
 # We want parallel builds by default
@@ -43,6 +41,9 @@
 
 , meta ? {}
 
+# disabled
+, runVend ? false
+
 # Not needed with buildGoModule
 , goPackagePath ? ""
 
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@
 
 with builtins;
 
-assert (runVend == true && proxyVendor == true) -> throw "can't use `runVend` and `proxyVendor` together";
+assert runVend != false -> throw "`runVend` has been replaced by `proxyVendor`";
 
 assert goPackagePath != "" -> throw "`goPackagePath` is not needed with `buildGoModule`";