Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

[Timothy Redaelli]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> having ebuilds in the tree that only work when you have a mingw compiler annoy
> me greatly as their only purpose is to produce windows binaries ... aka,
> things that are useless to a linux host
>
> however, i think it's a lovely idea to open a mingw overlay and populate the
> sucker until it's stuffed full of crap for people to use
>
> comments ?
> -mike

imho we can punt mingw stuff without overlay and if a user want to
cross-compile he can always use crossdev mingw32

My 2 cents
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