bug#55026: potential prebuilt binaries in the Mono package

[Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>]

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On 12-08-2022 22:03, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> zamfofex <zamfofex@twdb.moe> writes:
>
>> It seems the package for Mono in Guix uses a tarball that contains a
>> lot of prebuilt DLLs. This doesn’t seem to have been mentioned when
>> the package was introduced. Could it have been a mistake? Some related
>> discussion: <https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/7445> and also
>> <https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2022-04-19.log#195614>
> If nobody volunteers to do the work necessary to get our mono package to
> build without prebuilt binaries in the next 2 weeks, I suggest we remove
> it from our collection.  Only a handful package depend on it, most of
> them optionally it seems, and the mono we carry is severely outdated
> (2016).
>
> What do you think?
>
> Maxim
>
I hope someone does the work, but if not, I don't see a problem with 
removing it.

Greetings,
Maxime.


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