Drop win32libs-bin

Ralf Habacker ralf.habacker at googlemail.com
Tue Sep 18 08:42:08 UTC 2012


Am 17.09.2012 09:18, schrieb Andre Heinecke:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 15 September 2012 16:05:45 Patrick von Reth wrote:
>> Hi what do you think about dropping win32libs-bin.
>>
>>     - They are not maintained
>>     - Providing binary packages isn't that easy
>>     - You don't save that much time using prebuild win32libs
> I'm all for it, as said before, in my opinion there are two distributions. The
> Source distribution (emerge) which should build everything possible from
> source and the binary distribution (the installer). Mixing them is just added
> overhead with no real value.
>
> Personally I'm building sourceonly for a very long time now and I am not
> updating the binary packages.
>
> As we've already made sourceonly default at the last sprint dropping the
> binary packages should not hurt anyone.
Are there any binary package left in the win32libs section for which no 
source package is available ?
Regards
Ralf



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