Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage on Linux

On 24 August 2010 16:15, David Virebayre wrote:

2010/8/24 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic :

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What do you mean by "metapackages"?

Metapackage are packages of packages, they don't provide something by themselves, but they have a dependency list so that a set of package can be installed together.

For example, on ubuntu, installing "build-essentials" will pull gcc, make, autoconf, etc from the repositories.

Another example would be the haskell platform, on debian it's a metapackage that depends on all the individual packages of libraries and tools that belong to the platform.

That's what I thought; I don't see how this makes dealing with Haskell packages any easier (unless you want to specifically install the Haskell Platform rather than the individual libraries/tools you want/need, which is my preference). -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com