From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why ghc-bin is pulled in by portage update?
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 07:38:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150924113836.GA4987@greenbeast> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+t6X7eChz9UmtFG+D=5eEoN5Ck26kOSUwPjSaZdsGFQdGW2mA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:27:43PM +0300, gevisz wrote:
> I have dev-lang/ghc in my world file.
>
> Today, while updating the system, the portage
> wanted to update it. Ok. But why it pulles in
> ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2?
Like all good language authors, the ghc authors wrote a lot of the
language and toolchain in Haskell, so you need a Haskell compiler to
compile ghc.
> >>> Downloading 'http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2'
> --2015-09-24 14:12:02--
> http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2
> Resolving mirror.netcologne.de... 194.8.197.22, 2001:4dd0:1234:1::deb
> Connecting to mirror.netcologne.de|194.8.197.22|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 100573133 (96M) [application/octet-stream]
> Saving to: '/usr/portage/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2'
>
> /usr/portage/distfi 100%[=====================>] 95.91M 193KB/s in 9m 54s
>
> 2015-09-24 14:21:56 (165 KB/s) -
> '/usr/portage/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2' saved
> [100573133/100573133]
>
There is a 'ghcbootstrap' USE flag that you can set to use your locally
installed ghc to build the new ghc.
Alec
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2015-09-24 11:27 [gentoo-user] Why ghc-bin is pulled in by portage update? gevisz
2015-09-24 11:38 ` Alec Ten Harmsel [this message]
2015-09-24 11:50 ` gevisz
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