Drop win32libs-bin

[Patrick von Reth]

SO the best would be o move ghostscript to the binary package folder where
we already have vlc and mysql.

On 18 September 2012 11:24, Andre Heinecke <aheinecke at intevation.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 18 September 2012 10:42:08 Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > 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 ?
> I've checked:
>
> Only in win32libs-bin:
> ghostscript
> openldap
> runtime-ce
> xerces-c
>
> - openldap we have an alternative in testing.
> - runtime-ce should go to libs or binary category (libs is the place where
> runtime-multi is located)
> - xerces-c we need for libkolabxml and also have started on a source
> package
> in testing
>
> This makes ghostscript the last package for which we not already have, or
> are
> working on, a source package.
>
>
> Regards,
> Andre
>
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