On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Adam Vogt
] 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.
I think that is the Correct Way to do it!
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.
IMHO these are fairly silly reasons, pacman's dependency resolution may be slow, but it is insignificant compared to other stages during package building, for installing pre-built packages it might be more significant but I strongly doubt that it's enough to put people off. As for exposing bugs in yaourt, surely this is only good, isn't it? ;-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe