Thanks for the explanation! It was a little confusing with them both being lowercase - at least on hackage, they're differentiated by case. I had noticed this because an (optional) dependency of xmobar is dbus >= 0.10, but "pacman -S haskell-dbus" would only get me the one from [core]. -Leif
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org>wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Fabio Riga <rifa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Il 30/04/2013 09:06, Magnus Therning ha scritto: > >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Leif Warner <abimel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> What gives? > >> > >> There are a few dbus packages on hackage. The one in [haskell-core] > >> is DBus (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/DBus) which is rather old, > >> and quite possibly a candidate for removal (I'll have to check later > >> today). The dbus package in [haskell-web] seems to be dbus > >> (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dbus), which is newer and looks to > >> be better maintained (AFAICS it's also a dependency of github-annex). > >> > >> Not a particularly good answer, but maybe Fabio can fill in a little > >> more details > > > > Reading from hackage, I can tell you that DBUS is binding to the API, > > dbus is implemented in Haskell. The first fails with ghc-7.0, so I don't > > know why anybody would use it. As Magnus already told you, the reason > > for dbus presence in [haskell-web] is because it is a dependency of > > git-annex. > > DBus does build just fine with minor patches, which are present in > HABS :) But I also don't understand why anyone would use it. I'll > look into removing it ASAP. > > /M > > -- > Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 > email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org > twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus > > _______________________________________________ > arch-haskell mailing list > arch-haskell@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell >
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