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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425882
--- Comment #36 from Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com 2008-11-13 19:50:15 EDT --- (In reply to comment #35)
One remaining question: if ghc library packages in the future do grow a runtime component, that will imply not only that this package grows a -devel subpackage but that anything which build against it has to change to having a build dependency on the -devel package. That could be avoided now in a couple of ways, but I don't know whether the possibility of ghc supporting shared libraries is sufficiently remote that its not worth it. The simplest way is for this package to provide ghc-zlib-devel and for other packages to BuildRequires: that. In any case, I'll leave that up to you folks.
That is a very good suggestion and I think we should adopt that, since ghc is moving to support shared libraries.
We definitely need to get the full list of dependencies into the guidelines. Currently I think the haddock ones are missing. Or am I confused and is haddock somehow brought in by ghc?
ghc-6.10.1 includes a version of haddock now, but ghc-6.8.3 does not. (Hence my suggestion to do the review against ghc-6.10.1, but it is not yet in rawhide, just dist-f11.)
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