Re: Conditionally add OpenBSD's pledge(2) call -- but to which library?

2015-11-11 22:01 GMT+01:00 Matthias Kilian :

[...] In any case, client application using it would always either need some #ifdef or would get patches local to the OpenBSD ports tree.

So, any thoughts about this?

Please note: just writing a separate package for this wouldn't help much (for OpenBSD ports), because it would require changing cabal dependencies for every client application in addition to other source code patches.

This is highly specific to OpenBSD, and (as you mentioned) clients need to be changed, anyway. Therefore cabal dependencies can be changed, too. I don't see why the former should be acceptable while the latter shouldn't. So a separate package seems to be the way to go IMHO.