Hi Magnus,
The situation now is that 'cabal2arch' (or rather 'archlinux') again knows what packages are provided by the 'ghc' package. Resulting in a list that has to be maintained by a person who isn't intimately involved in packaging 'ghc' [...]. AFAICS this also forces a re-release of cabal2arch when the list of core packages changes.
you are right, this is a very convincing reason to list all dependencies, including those on standard libraries. I understand those changes were pushed to 'master' by accident; so I suggest we revert them. I am still in favor of dropping the comment about 'provides', though, because IMHO the issue yahourt had with that feature has been fixed; 'provides' should not cause any trouble for anyone anymore. Eventually, we might even consider replacing the dependency on "ghc" with, say "haskell-compiler", and have "ghc" provide that. This change would open the door for supporting other compilers transparently. Take care Peter