On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 12:53 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > I've been working recently on bringing Fedora up to snuff as a > platform to build Haskell software on: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Haskell#Haskell_Platform_support > > In my ideal world, it would be possible to install all of the > necessities for decent Haskell development via a single short command > line. I can see two ways to do this: > * Create a "haskell-devel" (or something) package that simply > depends on all of the Haskell Platform's component packages. > This would have the nice property of being versioned, just as > the Haskell Platform itself is. > * Create a "Haskell Development" group in comps. This is unknown > territory to me: I don't know if it's a good idea, how it > would work, how I'd edit it to add new dependencies when the > Haskell Platform gets updates, or ... well, anything. > What's the collective wisdom about the best approach for doing this? I wondered about this too when I joined, and several people told me metapackages are generally discouraged in favour of package groups. I don't know the rationale behind that decision, but that's what I was told. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
