SimonM: > > So you're proposing that -package options should *always* be required?
Why is it necessary to provide -package options at all? ghc-pkg knows about all the packages in your system so it could just implicitly add -package $x for every package when compiling or linking. When would you ever want to omit a package that you have installed on your system? I can only think of two cases: 1) You want to check that your program can be compiled on a system with just packages x, y and z installed. 2) You are the developer of package x and are developing/testing a new version. It seems like these could be handled by providing flags to change the default behaviour: -no-std-packages Clear the list of packages - you must specify them all explicitly. -without-package x Omit x from the list of packages -- Alastair Reid _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
