From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 27 22:02:32 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F16716A417; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:02:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lizard@unsane.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61A913C474; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:02:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lizard@unsane.de) Received: from [217.238.156.108] (helo=unsane.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwtQ-1IEXh40hvb-0006fa; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:49:54 +0200 Received: by unsane.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 423BCC1E7; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:49:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:49:44 +0200 From: Oliver Braun To: Thomas Schilling Message-ID: <20070727214944.GB57915@unsane.de> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Schilling , haskell@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org References: <9E795D9F-01A0-4339-AD47-D4325392AF85@googlemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9E795D9F-01A0-4339-AD47-D4325392AF85@googlemail.com> X-PGP-Key: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xEF25B1BA X-PGP-Key-Alternative: finger obraun@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6A3B 042A 732E 17E4 B6E7 3EAF C0B1 6B7D EF25 B1BA X-URL: http://unsane.org/~obraun/ X-Accept-Language: de en X-Editor: Vim-701 http://www.vim.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19usd3j0hYsGLkk32EVnL6jCZJhN5Q0S1QA7D1 CUlNNLBvZEmKVWiRBqb/naz9YuRdhKKkCmtZw0qAMxsGjshqnP tAWRLB23SOeD6ytFb/Fhg== Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, haskell@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: ghc-6.6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:02:32 -0000 --tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Thomas, * Thomas Schilling [2007-07-17 22:54 +0200]: > in its current form the ghc port depends on many X-related packages which= =20 > makes it depend on xorg-7.2. As I want to install it on my server I was= =20 > hoping I could avoid that (also it requires quite some manuel steps, thus= =20 > makes it not straight-forward). AFAIK, from 6.6.1 on GHC does not need t= o=20 > be built with all packages anymore, but rather contains of a few base=20 > packages and so-called "extra-libs". > I therefore suggest that the ghc port be split up into a ghc or ghc-base= =20 > port, and a ghc-extra-libs port. This way, it is should be possible to= =20 > build ghc with much fewer dependencies (and more quickly). It's already on our todo list. But we haven't had enough time yet. Sorry. But please feel free to start spliting ghc up in pieces. Regards, Olli --=20 Dr. Oliver Braun -- http://obraun.net/ --tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGqmh4wLFrfe8lsboRAn8NAJ9wMgoDyYk/GGHfdjH5UsQAa7WWewCfd/QP p95C4IGIKtGJYBT5fkVFP3s= =4tYB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye--