[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#553322: Bug#553322: Should cabal-install Recommend: ghc6?

[Trent W. Buck]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:47:35PM +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> tags 553322 + confirmed pending
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:26:53PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> >Package: cabal-install
> >Version: 0.6.2-1
> >Severity: minor
> >
> >If you're gonna use "cabal install" (as opposed to just "fetch" and
> >"update"), ghc6 would probably be pretty necessary...
> 
> Makes sense to me. I've added it in Darcs. Do you think anything else (haddock, happy, ...) would be suitable there?

I haven't thought about it.  "documentation: False" is the default in
~/.cabal/config, so I would probably make haddock a Suggests, not a
Recommends.  Same for ghc6-prof, I guess (library-profiling). Dunno
about happy or anything else.