This is a feature request, or rather a feature-removal request.

Now that go-plus supports golangci-lint and revive, can you please stop insisting that gometalinter be installed? That tool is not going to be maintained by its author (see alecthomas/gometalinter#590). Also, go-plus runs gometalinter --install to pull in even more packages that I'm not going to use.

I don't want to use gometalinter, and I don't want to have it. The only reason I need to have it installed, as well as its numerous dependencies, is so that go-plus doesn't try to install it automatically — despite golangci-lint being chosen as the preferred linter in go-plus settings.

Also, gometalinter has installation problems in environments with go.mod, and I need tricky workarounds for it to install cleanly. I'd like to drop those workarounds for a tool I don't use.