On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:37:48PM +0200, David Coppa wrote:
> > Making the whole hs-xmonad-contrib package depend on bash may be
> > overkill because there's only one small part of it that wants bash and
> > it doesn't really need bash, you can launch commands without having bash
> > installed, it only needs bash for completition.
> > Maybe it would be a good candidate for pkg/MESSAGE
>
> Uhm... Yes, you're right. I agree a mention into pkg/MESSAGE is the right way.
I'll let you guys decide, but please have a look at the size of the
packages in question and ask yourself wether it's worth to add
MESSAGE in favor of depending on bash:
$ pkg_info -s bash ghc hs-X11 hs-xmonad-contrib xmonad-lib
Information for inst:bash-4.1.7
Size: 3442292
Information for inst:ghc-6.12.3p0
Size: 575171769
Information for inst:hs-X11-1.5.0.0p3
Size: 8935711
Information for inst:hs-xmonad-contrib-0.9.1p4
Size: 27324551
Information for inst:xmonad-lib-0.9.1p4
Size: 3511607
Total size: 618385930
Ciao,
Kili
