Packaging Haskell libraries

[Till Maas]

On Mi Mai 9 2007, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

> For these reasons, the tiny handful of existing Haskell packages that
> are already packaged are prefixed with the name and version of the
> compiler they're built against, not with a simple "haskell-".  For
> example, the Gtk2Hs package is named ghc66-gtk2hs.  This is a pretty
> reasonable naming scheme.

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

> Finally, packaging Haskell libraries is a subtle business, because a
> Haskell compiler has its own package manager that needs to be treated
> properly, or you'll have a terrible mess on your hands where RPM and
> your Haskell implementation have different notions as to what's
> installed.  In particular with the X11 and mtl packages, older versions
> of those are already shipped with ghc itself.

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?

> You should take a look at my cabal-rpm tool, which generates a clean RPM
> spec file for Haskell packages that are packaged with the Cabal system:
>
> http://darcs.serpentine.com/cabal-rpm/

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.

Regards,
Till