Hi people. yesterday I tried to write a PKGBUILD for the haskell-platform. it looks like this (work in progress): ---- pkgname=haskell-platform pkgver=2010.1.0.0 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="the haskell platform" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/" license=('BSD') groups=() depends=('ghc>=6.12.1') makedepends=() optdepends=() provides=('cabal-install=0.8.0' 'alex=2.3.2' 'happy=1.18.4' 'haddock=2.7.2' 'haskell-cgi=3001.1.7.2' 'haskell-fgl=5.4.2.2' 'haskell-glut=2.1.2.1' 'haskell-haskell-src=1.0.1.3' 'haskell-html=1.0.1.2' 'haskell-hunit=1.2.2.1' 'haskell-mtl=1.1.0.2' 'haskell-network=2.2.1.7' 'haskell-opengl=2.2.3.0' 'haskell-parallel=2.2.0.1' 'haskell-parsec=2.1.0.1' 'haskell-quickcheck=2.1.0.3' 'haskell-regex-base=0.93.1' 'haskell-regex-compat=0.92' 'haskell-regex-posix=0.94.1' 'haskell-stm=2.1.1.2' 'haskell-xhtml=3000.2.0.1' 'haskell-zlib=0.5.2.0' 'haskell-http=4000.0.9' 'haskell-deepseq=1.1.0.0') conflicts=() replaces=() backup=() options=() install= source=(http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/$pkgver/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz) noextract=() md5sums=('ad96a12535b955f2f5e11769b02e0f76') build() { cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver" ./configure --prefix=/usr make || return 1 make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install } ---- as you can see, it is supposed to build *all* the platform in one bundle, and it uses the "provides" field to list all the packages offered by the platform, rather than building its content through dependencies. If one wants to have the platform version and the bleeding edge of a package, it might be problematic. A possible solution could be to use a different naming scheme for non-platform versions, like using the prefix "hackage-" rather than "haskell-" for example. Well I guess there are reasons for not using this approach already, and I'm not seeing them. If it is the case, I would be glad to hear them. ---- note : the above script doesn't work, for sure I did some stuff wrong. Maybe it could be better to use the cabalized version of the haskell-platform and then declare cabal-install, alex, happy and haddock as external dependencies - but then if any of those gets pushed ahead of the platform, it *will* cause troubles. Tom