#216: need a way to specify the foreign libraries a package depends on ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: ross@soi.city.ac.uk | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: reopened Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.6 Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: major | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: Linux ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Changes (by lemming): * status: closed => reopened * resolution: invalid => Comment: We have support for different compilers, why not also having support for different package systems? We could either sort the dependencies with respect to distributions: {{{ Debian-Depends: zlib-devel, alsa-devel Fedore-Depends: zlib-devel, alsa-devel }}} or with respect to needed files: {{{ File-Depends: zlib.h - zlib-devel.rpm >= 0.4, zlib-devel.deb >= 0.4 File-Depends: asound.h - alsa-devel.rpm >= 2.0, alsa-devel.deb >= 2.0 }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/216#comment:9 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects