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On Saturday 28 April 2007 20:50:12 Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: |
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> In the official portage there's a package called dev-haskell/network. It |
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> does absolutely nothing (it even says that). Why is it there? What is |
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> the purpose of having that package if it's not a virtual package that, |
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> btw, ghc could provide? |
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network-1.0 requires ghc-6.4 which always includes the network library. It |
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also blocks ghc-6.6. If you use ghc-6.6 which doesn't provide the network |
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library you need network-2.0 to get it. With this arrangement packages that |
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need the library can just depend on dev-haskell/network and not care which |
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version it gets. |
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Bo Andresen |
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