Hi Duncan, 2009/2/8 Duncan Coutts <[email protected]>: > On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:18 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> 2. How should that command look like? Something like: >> # cabal install --world > > Yes, if anyone else has a suggestion on this pitch in. In gentoo we say: > > $ emerge --upgrade world > > ie world acts rather like a meta-package of all the things the user > deliberately installed. Mhm, I agree with that but I'm unsure how to relate meta-packages to normal packages: In my understanding a meta-package doesn't have a version, so it doesn't have a 'PackageIdentifier' (and can't be an instance of class Package). > Thanks very much Peter for having a go at this one. I promise I'll > properly review your patch soon. You might as well wait until I've figured out the meta-package stuff as that might require some changes. > I'm shortly going to do a release and I think I might leave this new > feature 'til afterwards. However don't worry as I expect to put out > another release shortly after that with more dependency resolver > improvements so your feature will make it for that release. No problem. Peter _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
