[Haskell-cafe] why can it never go smoothly, language-c-0.4.7 edition

[Roman Cheplyaka]

See https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/220

On 12/01/15 08:00, briand at aracnet.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> setup-Simple-Cabal-1.22.0.0-x86_64-linux-ghc-7.8.4: The program 'happy' is
> required but it could not be found.
> 
> so i installed happy.
> 
> then it wanted alex.
> 
> which i was also able to install.
> 
> and then language-c-0.4.7 successfully installed.
> 
> I have seen this sort of thing many times across all sorts of different packages.
> 
> So my question is : are these dependency bugs that should be reported to the package maintainer ?
> 
> or is that certain packages can't be built as a dependency target for some reason  ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Brian
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