Hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 23.09.2009, 16:38 +0100 schrieb Iain Lane:
> >PS: Some idea if someone wants to really do integrational work for
> >Debian: Extend cabal-install to warn the user if he tries to install a
> >package from hackage (as a dependency or directly) where a Debian
> >version is available :-)
>
> This would be a nice feature. I just raised this on #ghc and it turns
> out that there is an upstream ticket about it[0], but the issue is a lot
> more complicated than it might first seem to do properly. Maybe as a
> first pass we could just spit out a warning if the top-level
> {library,version} which is being requested is also in the distro.
>
> [0] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/578
this could be possible if we find a way to access the package
registration data that we put in /var/lib/ghc-6.10.4/./package.conf even
for packages that are not installed; see the ticket. If you have an
ingenious idea how to do that, please tell us :-)
Greetings,
Joachim
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