duncan.coutts: > On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 17:58 +0100, Daniel Fischer wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2009 17:22 schrieb Sebastian Sylvan: > > > Is there some sort of bundle that you can use to install cabal-install > > > easily? Because it looks to me like I'd have to spend the better part of > > > an > > > evening manually downloading and installing the gazillion of dependencies > > > it has, which is far too much work when I just wanted to spend ten minutes > > > playing with some package... > > > > > > > Wait, 'gazillion of dependencies'? If you have the extralibs bundle built, > > there are only three dependencies to take care of > > - a recent Cabal library > > - HTTP > > - zlib > > I think the problem is that hackage is misleading. It looks from the > hackage page like there are a gazillion dependencies when in fact as you > say there are only 2 that are not included with the latest ghc. > > The solution some have suggested would be for hackage to only list > dependencies that are not in some core set.
Hmm. That's interesting. As we do in the distro tools, for example, makedepends=('ghc=6.10.1' 'haskell-http<4000' 'haskell-zlib') http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/community/devel/cabal-install/PKGBUILD?revision=1.1&root=community&pathrev=CURRENT So the distro packaging tools already have the 'implicit set' of things we know are on the system if ghc is on it too. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe