25 Oct
2006
25 Oct
'06
2:08 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 09:06 -0500, Brian Smith wrote:
Packages should be created in such a way that the set of things exported from the package should not change based on configuration.
Yes. I think I do agree. As an example, as it stands Gtk2Hs is a bunch of packages, however if configurations allowed changing the exposed modules then I could actually package Gtk2Hs all as one single package. That would be a very bad thing. Then as Brian says, there's no way to depend on one of those optional bits. We are introducing a big new feature here, we can start out conservatively and not allow some fields to be used in configuration stanzas. If a real need arises we can review. Duncan