Yeah, it seems that there are a number of potentially good options that are going to vary by distro and situation, which is why I've been thinking "hook to run arbitrary script".  Sufficiently populating the lookup table for that script for any given (Project, Distro) shouldn't be hard, and collecting those we should be able to quickly 1) round the rough edges off of the more common cases without requiring too much manual intervention, and 2) have a reasonable path for the less common cases.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Alexander V Vershilov <alexander.vershilov@gmail.com> wrote:

In Gentoo Linux we use a common ebuild format that allowes to add native dependencies to packages.
To create a ebuild from cabal file we use tool called hackport [1].

This approach allow to bump dependencies when some authors are to lazy to bump them themselves,

even in presence of pull requests, and add compatibility patches. Also it's possible to create a desktop-icons,

additional files, filter test/bench programs that should not be installed into system. Also it supports a dependency

on package flags and profiling.

However this approach doesn't scale on other distros in a easy way, one possibility is to create static
packages using emerge, but this area require some more research.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hackport

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On 18 March 2014 20:26, David Thomas <davidleothomas@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way to extract this?  I'm looking to make it easier for newcomers to my project to get things building across different linux distros.

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