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bug#41451: Haskell packages retain references to bootstrap variants
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Subject: |
bug#41451: Haskell packages retain references to bootstrap variants |
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Date: |
Mon, 25 May 2020 23:10:16 +0200 |
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Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
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>> 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Weren’t these files eventually superseded by the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’.