Hi, Am Montag, den 03.10.2011, 22:52 +1100 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic:
I am only talking about the packages as registered with ghc-pkg, not the packages as specified by .cabal. In distribution-lingo, the former are binary packages and the latter are source packages.
Would this not make it harder to determine which exact version of a package you have installed? I believe cabal-install uses ghc-pkg to know which versions are installed, so how would it know whether you have the latest bug-fix release installed?
no, that would also not be the case. Have a look at "ghc-pkg describe network". You see that it keeps track of the version in a field of its own. I am only talking about the id that appears in the "id" and "depends" fields. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de | nomeata@debian.org | GPG: 0x4743206C xmpp: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/