allbery:
On Jun 3, 2010, at 20:27 , Jens Petersen wrote:
I often find myself hitting Ctrl-C at "cabal install HACKAGE" to run "yum install ghc-DEPENDENCY-devel" and before returning to run "cabal install" again.
It would be nice to automate this in some way - cabal-install plugins, anyone??
Supposedly a future Cabal extension will be to, instead of installing, write out a package for a vendor packaging system (yum, apt, yast, what have you). Consider contributing to that effort.
However, we have tools for some distros that do this, and some distro tools support it directly (e.g. "bauerbill --hackage" on Arch Linux knows how to ask cabal2arch to translate the .cabal file). Contribut to yum to allow pulling from hackage, by calling cabal2yum? -- Don