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From: gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why ghc-bin is pulled in by portage update?
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:51:20
Message-Id: CA+t6X7dcB6VmQqpGcBOpUBkxAbLOu=A4fAXLtu2gOTz8853cJg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Why ghc-bin is pulled in by portage update? by Alec Ten Harmsel
1 2015-09-24 14:38 GMT+03:00 Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com>:
2 > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:27:43PM +0300, gevisz wrote:
3 >> I have dev-lang/ghc in my world file.
4 >>
5 >> Today, while updating the system, the portage
6 >> wanted to update it. Ok. But why it pulles in
7 >> ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2?
8 >
9 > Like all good language authors, the ghc authors wrote a lot of the
10 > language and toolchain in Haskell, so you need a Haskell compiler to
11 > compile ghc.
12 >
13 >> >>> Downloading 'http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2'
14 >> --2015-09-24 14:12:02--
15 >> http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2
16 >> Resolving mirror.netcologne.de... 194.8.197.22, 2001:4dd0:1234:1::deb
17 >> Connecting to mirror.netcologne.de|194.8.197.22|:80... connected.
18 >> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
19 >> Length: 100573133 (96M) [application/octet-stream]
20 >> Saving to: '/usr/portage/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2'
21 >>
22 >> /usr/portage/distfi 100%[=====================>] 95.91M 193KB/s in 9m 54s
23 >>
24 >> 2015-09-24 14:21:56 (165 KB/s) -
25 >> '/usr/portage/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2' saved
26 >> [100573133/100573133]
27 >>
28 >
29 > There is a 'ghcbootstrap' USE flag that you can set to use your locally
30 > installed ghc to build the new ghc.
31
32 Ok. Thank you for information.