[arch-haskell] ghc-6.10.2 in testing

Peter Hercek phercek at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 02:17:31 EDT 2009


Don Stewart wrote:
> vegai:
>   
>> I'm interested in ideas how to mitigate these issues... now, it seems
>> to me that they cannot very much, and the most we can do is unregister
>> everything prior to upgrading and informing the user of this.
>>     
>
> Right.
>
> If we could at least list the names (and commands to reinstall )
> packages that are about to break (all haskell-* on the system), that
> might be nice.
>
> Essentially, something like:
>
>     "WARNING: the following packages will need to be reinstalled:
>         pacman -Qs haskell

If I understand it correctly all libraries need to be reinstalled and 
executables can stay.
Is naming convention designed in such a way that "pacman -Qs haskell" 
should get the same result as "pacman -Qi ghc |grep '^Required By'"?


Peter.


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