Proposal: reduce base from the top

[Sven Panne]

On Tuesday 03 April 2007 13:42, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:21:34AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> [...]
> > System.Console.GetOpt
> > ---> new package getopt? consoleutils?
>
> It might be nice to leave "getopt" for a future C getopt binding.

Hmmm, System.Console.GetOpt is meant as a functionally 100% complete 
Haskell-like replacement for getopt(3). Is there anything missing? Anyway, 
using a  package for a single module looks a little bit like overkill to me. 
But if we do that, "getopt" should be the natural name.

Cheers,
   S.