duncan.coutts:
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 17:58 +0100, Daniel Fischer wrote:
Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2009 17:22 schrieb Sebastian Sylvan:
Is there some sort of bundle that you can use to install cabal-install easily? Because it looks to me like I'd have to spend the better part of an evening manually downloading and installing the gazillion of dependencies it has, which is far too much work when I just wanted to spend ten minutes playing with some package...
Wait, 'gazillion of dependencies'? If you have the extralibs bundle built, there are only three dependencies to take care of - a recent Cabal library - HTTP - zlib
I think the problem is that hackage is misleading. It looks from the hackage page like there are a gazillion dependencies when in fact as you say there are only 2 that are not included with the latest ghc.
The solution some have suggested would be for hackage to only list dependencies that are not in some core set.
Hmm. That's interesting. As we do in the distro tools, for example, makedepends=('ghc=6.10.1' 'haskell-http<4000' 'haskell-zlib') http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/community/devel/cabal-install/PKGBUILD?revision=1.1&root=community&pathrev=CURRENT So the distro packaging tools already have the 'implicit set' of things we know are on the system if ghc is on it too. -- Don