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Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 10:09:06 +0100
From: Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org>
To: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Cc: Alpine development <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>,
	Olliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl>,
	Mitch Tishmack <mitch.tishmack@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Remove haskell compiler (ghc) from alpine
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 01:36:15PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> ## TL;DR
> 
> ghc is blocking the 3.15 release, so I wonder if we can remove
> the following packages:
> 
> - community/gch
> - community/cabal
> - community/shellcheck
> - testing/pandoc
> - testing/apostrophe
> 

The latest situation:

Because bootstrapping ghc again after it's gone is tricky, ncopa made
some extra effort in getting ghc9 to work, first built with the built-in
ffi, and now built against system libffi, otherwise all dependencies
would pull in ghc. The libffi3.3-compat package that was used in the
interrim has been removed again>

Cabal seems to be not ready yet[0] for ghc9, so it's still missing,
along with the packages that require cabal:

- community/shellcheck
- testing/idris
- testing/kflc
- testing/pandoc

I've created an [issue][1] to follow up on enabling cabal again

Kevin

[0]:https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/7747
[1]:https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/13171