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

[Iain Lane]

Hey,

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 05:21:39PM -0200, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
>Hi Trent.
>
>Em Sex, 2009-10-30 às 21:26 +1100, Trent W. Buck escreveu:
>(...)
>> If you're gonna use "cabal install" (as opposed to just "fetch" and
>> "update"), ghc6 would probably be pretty necessary...
>
>Is there a use case for cabal-install without having ghc6 installed?  If
>not, I guess it should be a Depends: .
>
>Greetings.
>(...)

Quoting policy:

   Recommends

   This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.

   The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations. 

Sounds right to me.

Cheers,
Iain
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