Hi Duncan,
2009/2/8 Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:18 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
2. How should that command look like? Something like: # cabal install --world
Yes, if anyone else has a suggestion on this pitch in. In gentoo we say:
$ emerge --upgrade world
ie world acts rather like a meta-package of all the things the user deliberately installed.
Mhm, I agree with that but I'm unsure how to relate meta-packages to normal packages: In my understanding a meta-package doesn't have a version, so it doesn't have a 'PackageIdentifier' (and can't be an instance of class Package).
Thanks very much Peter for having a go at this one. I promise I'll properly review your patch soon.
You might as well wait until I've figured out the meta-package stuff as that might require some changes.
I'm shortly going to do a release and I think I might leave this new feature 'til afterwards. However don't worry as I expect to put out another release shortly after that with more dependency resolver improvements so your feature will make it for that release.
No problem. Peter