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From: gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>
To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why ghc-bin is pulled in by portage update?
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:50:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+t6X7dcB6VmQqpGcBOpUBkxAbLOu=A4fAXLtu2gOTz8853cJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150924113836.GA4987@greenbeast>

2015-09-24 14:38 GMT+03:00 Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.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.

Ok. Thank you for information.


      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-24 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
2015-09-24 11:50   ` gevisz [this message]

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