diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/networking/v2ray.nix b/nixos/modules/services/networking/v2ray.nix
index f1556bb12792..a1774cdffbb9 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/networking/v2ray.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/networking/v2ray.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ with lib;
         description = ''
           Whether to run v2ray server.
 
-          Either `configFile` or `config` must be specified.
+          Either <literal>configFile</literal> or <literal>config</literal> must be specified.
         '';
       };
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ with lib;
         description = ''
           The absolute path to the configuration file.
 
-          Either `configFile` or `config` must be specified.
+          Either <literal>configFile</literal> or <literal>config</literal> must be specified.
 
           See <link xlink:href="https://v2ray.com/en/configuration/overview.html"/>.
         '';
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/v2ray/deps.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/v2ray/deps.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 40128b1c1fb2..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/v2ray/deps.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,219 +0,0 @@
-# file generated from go.mod using vgo2nix (https://github.com/adisbladis/vgo2nix)
-[
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-    goPackagePath = "cloud.google.com/go";
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-      url = "https://code.googlesource.com/gocloud";
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-    fetch = {
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-      url = "https://github.com/h12w/socks";
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-      sha256 = "05iq2i3idpwv1n087zsmcrva5ix8akngm37a36mg0ndidn7ypgis";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "honnef.co/go/tools";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/dominikh/go-tools";
-      rev = "ea95bdfd59fc";
-      sha256 = "1763nw7pwpzkvzfnm63dgzcgbq9hwmq5l1nffchnhh77vgkaq4ic";
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diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/v2ray/generic.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/v2ray/generic.nix
index ce10d186ba54..bf6e6cd55ae2 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/v2ray/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/v2ray/generic.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, linkFarm, buildGoPackage, runCommand, makeWrapper, go
+{ lib, linkFarm, buildGoModule, runCommand, makeWrapper
 
 # Version specific args
 , version, src, assets
@@ -9,14 +9,11 @@ let
     inherit name path;
   }) assets);
 
-  core = buildGoPackage rec {
+  core = buildGoModule rec {
     pname = "v2ray-core";
     inherit version src;
 
-    goPackagePath = "v2ray.com/core";
-    goDeps = ./deps.nix;
-
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ go ];
+    modSha256 = "11gsncy3449a7y6w6pr7acqabyj2q2a1q52f8fcl5cdz1vjbmmxi";
 
     buildPhase = ''
       runHook preBuild
@@ -28,7 +25,7 @@ let
     '';
 
     installPhase = ''
-      install -Dm755 v2ray v2ctl -t $bin/bin
+      install -Dm755 v2ray v2ctl -t $out/bin
     '';
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/v2ray/update.sh b/pkgs/tools/networking/v2ray/update.sh
index a7bd40bc2e58..38ad77e98f86 100755
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/v2ray/update.sh
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/v2ray/update.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
-#!nix-shell -i bash -p curl jq vgo2nix
+#!nix-shell -i bash -p curl jq
 set -eo pipefail
 
 version_nix=$(dirname "$0")/default.nix
@@ -28,10 +28,6 @@ if [[ $core_rev != $old_core_rev ]]; then
         nix-prefetch-url --unpack --print-path "https://github.com/v2ray/v2ray-core/archive/$core_rev.zip"
     )
 
-    echo "Generating deps.nix..." >&2
-    # `outfile` is required to be absolute path
-    vgo2nix -dir "$store_path" -outfile "$(realpath "$deps_nix")"
-
     sed --in-place \
         -e "s/\bversion = \".*\"/version = \"$(echo "$core_rev" | tail -c+2)\"/" \
         -e "s/\bsha256 = \".*\"/sha256 = \"$hash\"/" \