Re: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#553322: Bug#553322: Should cabal-install Recommend: ghc6?

[twb@cybersource.com.au (Trent W. Buck)]

Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot@riseup.net> writes:

> Quoting policy:
>> The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is
>> required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of
>> functionality.
>
> My point is: is there even an unusual case in that it could be useful to
> have cabal-install installed and not ghc6?

Here's a hypothetical, pathological case:

You want to mirror hackage (using cabal fetch) to a central NAS, and
then have various buildbots do compiles.  The buildbots aren't trusted
with net access, and the NAS has 512MB of MTD for the OS.  You want
cabal-install on the NAS, but not ghc6.

> So, reading this quote, I think Recommends is the way to go for -doc
> packages.

FWIW, I'm ambivalent; either Recommends or Depends is fine with me.