bug#55026: potential prebuilt binaries in the Mono package

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello,

Mono was removed from Guix with commit
bd638a8ad6140db87851a86faae89e736e148f3d.

Closing.

Maxim

"Zhu Zihao"
<all_but_last@163.com> writes:

> Agree.
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> Actually, there's more prebuilt binaries in Mono 6 (current version)
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> And it's impossible to remove these binaries (see 
> https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/1930)
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> At 2022-08-13 04:03:43, "Maxim Cournoyer" <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Hi,
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>>zamfofex <zamfofex@twdb.moe> writes:
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>>> 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>
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>>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them optionally it seems, and the mono we carry is severely outdated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).
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>>What do you think?
>>
>>Maxim