Packaging Haskell libraries

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

Till Maas wrote:

> There seems to be also "ghc-gtk2hs" and only "gtk2hs-doc" without any ghc 
> prefix in Fedora Extras 6.

Yep.  The ghc-gtk2hs package is empty; I don't know what purpose it is 
supposed to serve.  It's understandable that the doc package would be 
implementation independent :-)

> Can I use the hugs98-x11 with ghc or need all libraries used by ghc be 
> compiled by ghc, too? Or is this a complete different package?

Hugs and GHC are not binary compatible, so they need duplicates of every 
library package.

> Thanks, I will take a look at it when I will try to build xmonad and its 
> dependencies. But knowing these new obstacles, my motivation just became 
> less.

FWIW, it took me about 5 minutes to build xmonad using cabal-rpm.

	<b