On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 14:54 +0200, Ketil Malde wrote: > > You have a point, though, and I wouldn't mind at all cabal-install > > being integrated into portage, > > I'm not too familiar with portage, but I think a better solution is to > provide tools to automatically generate packages for the various > systems.
Yeah, we've got one for gentoo/portage called hackport. That's why we have so many packages in the haskell overlay. We didn't do them all manually :-) > How would you specify dependencies on non-haskell components in a > portable way? Unfortunately the same packages get named differently on different package systems, eg "zlib", "libzlib", "libzlib-dev" etc. It's probably possible to use reasonably standard names and map to the distro-names. Doing that reliably is not going to be easy though. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe