Re: [arch-haskell] Why is haskell-utf8-string installed?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Don Stewart wrote:

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magnus:

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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

Looking at the packages online it looks like I've missed some version information on the dependencies in pacman's output. So forget the whole thing! ;-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe