factory-go | A library for setting up Golang objects | Bot library

I'm trying to understand how to work with a remote repository in Artifactory for a Go project. My initial expectation was that it'll work transparently, all I would need to do is to point GORPOXY variable to a virtual repository (with local and remote behind it), do go build and dependencies will either be downloaded from the Artifactory cache or Artifactory would download them transparently. Similar to the way it works for maven dependencies.

When I tried that, it complained that the dependencies weren't found in artifactory. Ok.

Reading the documentation two things stand out. First, there's nothing there about GOPROXY and everything is about using artifactory cli. That's a big downside for several reasons. Second, is that you need to publish dependencies manually with jfrog rt go-publish go --self=false --deps=ALL and then dependencies appear under a local repository.

So I'm trying to figure out if 1) I can avoid using JFrog CLI and 2) what's the point of remote repositories if they don't proxy? Or maybe I'm missing something?

Artifactory 6.3.0