RE: proposal for ghc-pkg to use a directory of .conf files

On 08 November 2004 18:47, Duncan Coutts wrote:

We can use ghc-pkg at the build / install-into-temp phase to create the $(package).conf files under $TMP_INSTALL_ROOT/usr/lib/ghc-$VER/package.conf.d/ and then final installation is jsut merging files without any post-install calls to ghc-pkg to modify installed files (ie the global ghc package.conf file)

So we can still keep the abstraction of $HC-pkg and gain simpler packaging stuff.

Ok, sounds reasonable. I'm going to be working on the package support in ghc and ghc-pkg to improve support for Cabal, so let's do this at the same time. Cheers, Simon