On 21 November 2004 00:56, Isaac Jones wrote:
The systems that would want to do this kind of thing, such as Debian,
have other mechanisms for deciding whether packages conflict, etc.
IIRC, this is the argument I just used against adding support for
multiple libraries in Cabal, so I guess I
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(snip)
There's another thing that bothers me though: when you install a package
using hc-pkg, a number of checks are made:
1. there isn't already a package with that name/version
2. If the package is to be exposed, then the modules provided by the
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 08 November 2004 18:47, Duncan Coutts wrote:
We can use ghc-pkg at the build / install-into-temp phase to create
the $(package).conf files under
$TMP_INSTALL_ROOT/usr/lib/ghc-$VER/package.conf.d/ and then final
installation is jsut merging files
On 09 November 2004 17:36, Isaac Jones wrote:
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 08 November 2004 18:47, Duncan Coutts wrote:
We can use ghc-pkg at the build / install-into-temp phase to create
the $(package).conf files under
$TMP_INSTALL_ROOT/usr/lib/ghc-$VER/package.conf.d/ and
On 08 November 2004 18:47, Duncan Coutts wrote:
We can use ghc-pkg at the build / install-into-temp phase to create
the $(package).conf files under
$TMP_INSTALL_ROOT/usr/lib/ghc-$VER/package.conf.d/ and then final
installation is jsut merging files without any post-install calls to
ghc-pkg
On 06 November 2004 10:10, Sven Panne wrote:
Duncan Coutts wrote:
I can knock up a proof of concept patch if anyone thinks this is a
good idea. It should be totally backward compatible, it's ok to use
both, but ditro packagers might like to enforce a policy of using a
directory of package
On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 14:36, Simon Marlow wrote:
On 06 November 2004 10:10, Sven Panne wrote:
Duncan Coutts wrote:
I can knock up a proof of concept patch if anyone thinks this is a
good idea. It should be totally backward compatible, it's ok to use
both, but ditro packagers might like
Duncan Coutts wrote:
[...] The advantage of doing this is that it makes things easier for the
package managers. Each individual file can belong to the appropriate
package and so instead of having to execute registration/unregistration
actions on install/uninstall it's just another file to
