From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Caleb Ristvedt <caleb.ristvedt@cune.org>
Cc: 31836@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31836: Installing bc downloads ghc
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:34:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8m4tbpk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAELvoty01695_8MCYtTL__DpBgLshydGYRmD=zi4f7HjALMz3w@mail.gmail.com> (Caleb Ristvedt's message of "Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:36:16 -0500")
Hello reepca,
Caleb Ristvedt <caleb.ristvedt@cune.org> skribis:
> Pretty much what the title says. I tried installing bc and it downloaded
> ghc, among other things. I was curious how this came to be, so I ran
As discussed on IRC, this can happen if the profile contains ghc-*
packages. When that is the case, a “profile hook” triggers, which
regenerates GHC’s package cache. See (guix profiles).
I understand it looks weird, but it’s “expected.”
HTH!
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-15 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-14 21:36 bug#31836: Installing bc downloads ghc Caleb Ristvedt
2018-06-15 11:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-15 13:00 ` Caleb Ristvedt
2018-06-16 20:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-17 4:56 ` Caleb Ristvedt
2018-06-15 13:34 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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