[Haskell-cafe] Erroneous package listings in hackage?

[Henk-Jan van Tuyl]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:21:59 +0200, Dougal Stanton  
<dougal at dougalstanton.net> wrote:

> $ cabal update
> ...
> $ cabal list | less
>  ...
>  * cairo
>       Latest version installed: 0.9.13
>       Homepage: http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/
>       License:  BSD3
>  ...
> $ cabal install cairo
> cabal: There is no package named cairo
>
> I must admit I was surprised to see a gtk2hs module on Hackage, but
> not half as surprised when I found it wasn't there after all...
>
> D

There is clearly something wrong here; there is also a package named gtk  
that is listed with "cabal list" but cannot be downloaded.

If you need Cairo, it is included in the Gtk2Hs package (  
http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/download/ ).


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