Hi Iain. Em Dom, 2010-01-03 às 22:20 +0000, Iain Lane escreveu: (...) > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 05:21:39PM -0200, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: (...) > >Em Sex, 2009-10-30 às 21:26 +1100, Trent W. Buck escreveu: > >(...) > >> If you're gonna use "cabal install" (as opposed to just "fetch" and > >> "update"), ghc6 would probably be pretty necessary... > > > >Is there a use case for cabal-install without having ghc6 installed? If > >not, I guess it should be a Depends: . > > > >Greetings. > >(...) > > Quoting policy: > > Recommends > > This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. > > The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together > with this one in all but unusual installations.
Quoting policy: > Depends > (...) > The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is > required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of > functionality. My point is: is there even an unusual case in that it could be useful to have cabal-install installed and not ghc6? By the way, this quote made me remind of the discussion about -doc packages relationship. I can think of unusual cases in which one would want to install a -doc package with broken links, to avoid having to install all the -doc stack, for instance, when a user wants just to check the doc of a specific package and remove the package some minutes latter. So, reading this quote, I think Recommends is the way to go for -doc packages. Thanks for answering. (...) -- marcot http://marcot.iaaeee.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
