On Saturday 28 April 2007 20:50:12 Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: > In the official portage there's a package called dev-haskell/network. It > does absolutely nothing (it even says that). Why is it there? What is > the purpose of having that package if it's not a virtual package that, > btw, ghc could provide?
network-1.0 requires ghc-6.4 which always includes the network library. It also blocks ghc-6.6. If you use ghc-6.6 which doesn't provide the network library you need network-2.0 to get it. With this arrangement packages that need the library can just depend on dev-haskell/network and not care which version it gets. -- Bo Andresen
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