On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:15:03AM +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:
Hi,
our developers that have a debian system (i.e Ubuntu) and want to compile our sources with ghc complain that they have to install many extra library packages one after another.
Compiling fails at various stages due to missing packages.
Is there no way to provide all the extra libs in one debian package for ghc?
It may be possible to create a "package" which depends on all normal "extras" but that seems counter-productive.
As a Debian user who frequently operates disconnected from the network, I have to say I have found such 'extras' packages highly productive---the loss of disk space is more than compensated for by the ability to continue working during a long plane flight, because packages I didn't know I needed are already installed on my system. I would welcome a virtual package to pull in all things ghc-6.6. Norman