On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 13:03, Peter Hercek
Hi,
This is a call to create pacman group with name haskell (or ghc or something similar). All packages which depend on ghc would belong to the group. The reason why I would like to see this is to allow disabling update of any ghc dependency easily in pacman.conf. It would be cool if something like "IgnoreGroup = haskell" in /etc/pacman.conf would postpone update of any ghc dependency. Normally non-haskell packages do not need this but since haskell has no backward binary compatibility it can be really useful sometimes.
This situation is the reason for having specific versions in all dependencies. Is there a scenario where this wouldn't be enough?
If somebody installs everything from haskell, then this would also allow installing everything at once (using the group name). Although for this to work we might need first to make sure there are no duplicates between extra/community/haskell repositories. Not sure how trying to install whole group would behave when it hits duplicates (like e.g. gtk2hs-gtk in community and haskell-gtk2hs-gtk in haskell (well, the one in haskell is more useful since it provides glade bindings too)).
The goal is to have no such overlap. The problem is to recognise when such an overlap occurs. There are two situations that ArchHaskell needs to notice: 1. A Haskell package in core/extra/community is updated to a new version 2. A Haskell package is added to core/extra/community Is there some way of (semi-)automating this already? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus