On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Don Stewart
magnus:
I suspect this is a bug in pacman, but would really like someone else to confirm that I'm not just confused ;-)
I just removed all my haskell-related packages and re-installed the bare minimum I need:
% sudo pacman -Rncs ghc % sudo pacman -S xmonad-contrib
After this I find that I have two versions on utf8-string:
% ghc-pkg list|grep utf8 utf8-string-0.3.4 utf8-string-0.3.6
GHC 6.12 provides utf8-string, is that involved?
Well, that's really the whole point of my email. Probably very clumsily asked though. Yes, GHC 6.12 provides utf8-string 0.3.4, neither xmonad-contrib nor haskell-x11-xft rely on any particular version (anything >=0.3 satisfies both). Yet pacman installed haskell-utf8-string (0.3.6). It looks like pacman didn't take into consideration that ghc (the Arch package) provides haskell-utf8-string[1]. In other words, it looks to me like pacman's dependency resolution has a bug. With my usual doubt in my own abilities I was wondering if there isn't a fault in my logic :-) /M [1]: http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/ghc/repos/extra-x86_64/PKGBUILD -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe