On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:27:43PM +0300, gevisz wrote: > I have dev-lang/ghc in my world file. > > Today, while updating the system, the portage > wanted to update it. Ok. But why it pulles in > ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2?
Like all good language authors, the ghc authors wrote a lot of the language and toolchain in Haskell, so you need a Haskell compiler to compile ghc. > >>> Downloading > >>> 'http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2' > --2015-09-24 14:12:02-- > http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2 > Resolving mirror.netcologne.de... 194.8.197.22, 2001:4dd0:1234:1::deb > Connecting to mirror.netcologne.de|194.8.197.22|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 100573133 (96M) [application/octet-stream] > Saving to: '/usr/portage/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2' > > /usr/portage/distfi 100%[=====================>] 95.91M 193KB/s in 9m 54s > > 2015-09-24 14:21:56 (165 KB/s) - > '/usr/portage/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2' saved > [100573133/100573133] > There is a 'ghcbootstrap' USE flag that you can set to use your locally installed ghc to build the new ghc. Alec
