golist only implements a single output format, which means this output needs to be reprocessed in shell before being fed to other software, like rpm¹.

This shell reprocessing is brittle and adds noise to Go package build logs.

Mature utilities allow specifying an output format template, which simplifies their integration with other software. This can be done:

• either by defining a custom format string using predefined variables (as done by the time -fcommand),
• or by specifying a specific package dep format built-in (as done by the fcquery --format '%{=pkgkit}' command, that allowed direct integration within rpm in 2009).

golist should implement something similar.

¹ Typically to add golang() around dependencies, would need more processing if it ever evolves to list version constrains