From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E841C13881C for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:51:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7F2821C058; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:51:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com (mail-wi0-f177.google.com [209.85.212.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8055821C051 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:50:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wiclk2 with SMTP id lk2so24423701wic.0 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 04:50:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=C5Rj5DipFCtKtj8MBwCmndkJuda4iu30iof0/AicUAM=; b=a5hCfgIcO8yv3+tSfuh4ADMLMALE8o8Jb0hf1Gk1HxkgMNgDUQJEAYVdSxroaNqFMu N5H3c015uGFNp/6H5BlSkioUgf5r6+YPDNJ7JLc9+b8fMuvpKCv1zUz/58NHX8/TtJpj B1HIO/LHEp6B3F0GgSobtaB7k4BsxZU8IAmhrFCxofmSPzhK0rNuRKyyr1KjkATn9nwh RA2ztW0dCPTWUf8akWk039zfWs73vMNpiNfeA77b2TAB9z3sNUYHzA7Cm2FLfEB4ypaB 2tWmBImpN/TMPt6jAbPP0ON7+V08ZNx6BlSOYHLkmaUFgXCzwLLav4uhu8hKvlfWdTxC sH0w== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.210.162 with SMTP id mv2mr9167858wic.47.1443095444462; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 04:50:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.27.53.81 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 04:50:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150924113836.GA4987@greenbeast> References: <20150924113836.GA4987@greenbeast> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:50:44 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why ghc-bin is pulled in by portage update? From: gevisz To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 7d2524c5-4663-4e6c-b094-0232e7f77f7f X-Archives-Hash: c112ae34ac886dc29c8bef75fda8f846 2015-09-24 14:38 GMT+03:00 Alec Ten Harmsel : > 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.