[Hackage] #216: need a way to specify the foreign libraries a package depends on

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#216: need a way to specify the foreign libraries a package depends on
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  Reporter:  ross at soi.city.ac.uk  |        Owner:         
      Type:  enhancement          |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal               |    Milestone:         
 Component:  Cabal library        |      Version:  1.2.3.0
  Severity:  major                |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  normal               |   Ghcversion:  6.8.2  
  Platform:  Linux                |  
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 Package descriptions allow one to specify which Haskell libraries a
 package depends on, but foreign ones.  Designing something that can be
 used with native package managers is complicated because many of them
 alter the upstream library names in unpredictable ways.

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