[xmonad] XMonad.Prompt.Pass patch

[Daniel Schoepe]

Hi,

the intention for xmonad-extras was to house modules requiring
additional Haskell libraries as dependencies to prevent pulling in a lot
of other stuff just for compiling xmonad and xmonad-contrib. This is not
a problem here, the module just won't do anything.

The same point can be made about all the modules to support dzen-based
status bars, (like Util.Dzen), for which dzen is needed for the modules
to be useful. In my view, it's up to the user to ensure these binaries
are present when they want to use what is clearly a module that's
supposed to integrate pass/dzen/whatever with xmonad.

Therefore I think that this module can go into contrib.

Cheers,
Daniel

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:31 +0200, ardumont wrote:
> Peter Jones writes:
>
>> ardumont <eniotna.t at gmail.com> writes:
>>> In any case, how is it apparent for you that this is not standard?
>>
>> It's not a default package on any distro that I'm aware of.
>
> ?
>
> Like I said, from pass's documentation (I just added the links):
> - Ubuntu - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/password-store
> - Debian - https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/password-store
> - Gentoo - http://packages.gentoo.org/?search=pass&bgresponse=
> - Arch - https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/pass/
> - NixOS - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/security/pass/default.nix#L17
> - FreeBSD - http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/sysutils/password-store/
> - ...
>
> This is all `default` (it's in the main repository distribution) so I do not understand.
> Also, I believe those distributions are the main linux families (every
> other in a way or another deriving from one of those).
>
> So I must misunderstand the term `default` package, can you explicit it
> for me?
>
>> Since your contribution depends on a non-standard package
>
> Can you please, clarify the term non-standard package?
>
>> I think it would fit in better with xmonad-extras:
>>
>>   https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-extra
>
> I was not aware of this (I must have missed it on the main site).
>
> From the definition `Various modules for xmonad that cannot be added to
> xmonad-contrib because of additional dependencies.`
> pass is indeed an additional dependencies so it seems completely reasonable.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> @ardumont
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