Agree.


Actually, there's more prebuilt binaries in Mono 6 (current version)


And it's impossible to remove these binaries (see https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/1930)






At 2022-08-13 04:03:43, "Maxim Cournoyer" <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> 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 doesnĄ¯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them optionally it seems, and the mono we carry is severely outdated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