[arch-haskell] Adding another data file for dependency "hints"

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 09:08, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since pacman's dependency specification is much less powerful than in
> Cabal, cabal2arch may output wrong version constraints while trying to
> approximate the true specified dependencies. I prefer this to dropping
> all version requirements when they cannot be expressed in the pacman's
> way.

This sounds reasonable.  However, do you have examples of dependencies
that CABAL can express but pacman can't?  (I was under the impression
that the difference was that CABAL allowed more terse expressions, not
that it allowed more.)

> In order to get improved PKGBUILDs I thought we could have a better
> usage of the dependency resolution capabilities in the Cabal library,
> this is summed up in this commit
>
>  http://github.com/remyoudompheng/archhaskell/commit/2e614b2
>
> This adds an extra file, platform-provides.txt, that lists our
> preferred versions for various packages. For the moment I have filled
> it with the contents of Haskell Platform.

Is it worth considering downloading this file dynamically, rather than
compiling it into the executable statically?

/M

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