From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 41451@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41451: Haskell packages retain references to bootstrap variants
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 23:10:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tv03u3ev.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7w4jrtw.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Mon, 25 May 2020 11:18:19 +0200")
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> Some Haskell packages have a “-bootstrap” variant to cut dependency
>> cycles. Unfortunately, these bootstrap variants remain in the reference
>> graph alongside their non-bootstrap counterparts.
>
> On a related note, Haskell packages retain needless references to *all*
> other Haskell packages at build time. That’s because we *copy* their
> .conf files at build time to create a package cache, and these .conf
> files thus propagate even to unrelated packages.
Weren’t these files eventually superseded by the
‘ghc-package-cache-file’ profile hook? Or are these two different
things?
Ludo’.
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2020-05-22 9:17 bug#41451: Haskell packages retain references to bootstrap variants Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-25 9:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-25 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-05-26 6:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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