matt:

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 11:06:47AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:

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Not every package has haddocks that build, and it adds haddock as a new dependency to the build process.

Why is this such a bad thing? Haddock is something most haskell users have on their systems.

The build system is already fairly ... large. And the point of the package system is to make Haskell things available to non-Haskell users -- those who don't already have a full toolchain installed. Given the docs are already been pre-generated for us on hackage.haskell.org, for each package, we could just suck those down. -- Don