[gentoo-user] dev-haskell/network

[gentoo-user] dev-haskell/network

[Iván Pérez Domínguez]

In the official portage there's a package called dev-haskell/network. It
does absolutely nothing (it even says that). Why is it there? What is
the purpose of having that package if it's not a virtual package that,
btw, ghc could provide?
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Re: [gentoo-user] dev-haskell/network

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Saturday 28 April 2007 20:50:12 Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote:
> In the official portage there's a package called dev-haskell/network. It
> does absolutely nothing (it even says that). Why is it there? What is
> the purpose of having that package if it's not a virtual package that,
> btw, ghc could provide?

network-1.0 requires ghc-6.4 which always includes the network library. It 
also blocks ghc-6.6. If you use ghc-6.6 which doesn't provide the network 
library you need network-2.0 to get it. With this arrangement packages that 
need the library can just depend on dev-haskell/network and not care which 
version it gets.

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Bo Andresen

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