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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:27:43PM +0300, gevisz wrote: |
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> I have dev-lang/ghc in my world file. |
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> Today, while updating the system, the portage |
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> wanted to update it. Ok. But why it pulles in |
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> ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2? |
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Like all good language authors, the ghc authors wrote a lot of the |
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language and toolchain in Haskell, so you need a Haskell compiler to |
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compile ghc. |
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> >>> Downloading 'http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2' |
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> --2015-09-24 14:12:02-- |
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> http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2 |
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> Resolving mirror.netcologne.de... 194.8.197.22, 2001:4dd0:1234:1::deb |
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> Connecting to mirror.netcologne.de|194.8.197.22|:80... connected. |
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> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK |
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> Length: 100573133 (96M) [application/octet-stream] |
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> Saving to: '/usr/portage/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2' |
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> |
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> /usr/portage/distfi 100%[=====================>] 95.91M 193KB/s in 9m 54s |
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> 2015-09-24 14:21:56 (165 KB/s) - |
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> '/usr/portage/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2' saved |
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There is a 'ghcbootstrap' USE flag that you can set to use your locally |
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installed ghc to build the new ghc. |
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Alec |
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