Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:14:59 +0100, Brandon Allbery wrote:

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On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Petr P wrote:

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So if I put cpphs into build-tools and I don't have it installed, the build will fail? Is this a desired behavior, or a bug?

Shortcoming of cabal; it only "knows about" libraries because it is really

A work-around for this would be to add a dummy library to program-only packages.

But then what do you do about the current case, where the library imports a potentially dubious license dependency? -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net