This was introduced in 2010 in 9e16b812 and as far as I can tell the
issue mentioned in the comment does not exist anymore. In a stripped
mono build, I was able to:
- Run "mcs --version" without trouble (original test case)
- Run "keepass" (mono app)
- Build packages that depend on mono (e.g. f# and others).
$ nix path-info -sh
Before: 537.8M
After: 304.3M
$ nix path-info -Sh
Before: 1.2G
After: 867.0M
(Transitive closure size decreases more than the package size itself
because mono ended up depending on gcc through leaked paths in .so files
before.)
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