[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

[Ketil Malde]

Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> writes:

> The profiling data is put in -prof packages, i.e. ghc-prof,
> libghc6-network-prof etc. Indeed, there is no easy way to tell the
> package system: Whenever I install a Haskell -dev package, please
> install the -prof package as well.

One option might to add a fourth package: a virtual package that includes
all the others.  (E.g. a libghc6-network that would pull
libghc6-network-dev, -prof and -doc.)  I generally just add a wildcard
(apt-get install libghc6-network-\*), though, which isn't a lot harder.

-k
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