vogt.adam:
* On Saturday, January 16 2010, Don Stewart wrote:
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Right, that's the usual 'ghc major update' diff.
I'll take care of it. The list just has to match this page:
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Libraries_released_with_GHC
-- Don
It might be sensible to remove the use of corePackages in:
] removeCoreFrom :: [Dependency] -> [Dependency]
Considering the current ghc now provides haskell-* packages for all of it's core libraries:
Provides : haskell-array=0.3.0.0 haskell-bytestring=0.9.1.5 haskell-cabal=1.8.0.2 haskell-containers=0.3.0.0 haskell-directory=1.0.1.0 haskell-extensible-exceptions=0.1.1.1 haskell-filepath=1.1.0.3 haskell-haskell98=1.0.1.1 haskell-hpc=0.5.0.4 haskell-old-locale=1.0.0.2 haskell-old-time=1.0.0.3 haskell-pretty=1.0.1.1 haskell-process=1.0.1.2 haskell-random=1.0.0.2 haskell-syb=0.1.0.2 haskell-template-haskell=2.4.0.0 haskell-time=1.1.4 haskell-unix=2.4.0.0 haskell-utf8-string=0.3.4
That would make all library dependencies explicit (well other than base). If ghc continues to reduce the set of core libraries (ex. mtl is missing from 6.12), pkgbuilds will have to be updated less frequently.
Oh, that's an interesting idea. It moves the list to keeping ghc's list up to date. Which I presume happens every time we update ghc? Where does the list of what our ghc package provide live? Maybe I can just suck that in?
But perhaps such a change isn't worth the extra time pacman will then take to resolve dependencies... and also other bugs in yaourt it might expose.
That's always a risk.