#227: cabal-install does consider build-tools as dependencies ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: duncan Type: defect | Status: assigned Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment (by darrint): Seems like what you need is to be able to determine which packages provide which executables. Alex, for instance, declares that it provides an executable by that name. For the next release of cabal-install, maybe change the package repository metadata format to include more (all?) the cabal info instead of a file list. That will allow you to solve more situations and do a full install plan up front. Would that work? -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/227#comment:3 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects