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.courno...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >zamfofex <zamfo...@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them optionally it seems, and the mono we carry is severely outdated 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
