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[Dmitry Marakasov]

* Gabor PALI (pgj at FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> I created the split ports [1] for darcs.  It seems to be nice:

Hm, I feel double about this. On the one hand, it's nicely splitting
library from implementation, on the other hand, it's overcomplicated (as
most master/slave ports), just look at the plist. Also, will both ports
have the same option list? If yes, what happens if you specify
conflicting options for them? Building it twice also doesn't feel good.

It'd probably be ok if it was two separate ports, building only needed
stuff and having separate set of options. However, I still think that
the best would be to just have "darcs" that "installs modules as a
bonus", like some other end-user applications do (and some even install
modules for several language at once). The only drawback is not having
hs- prefix, which as I told, is not expected by users, and should
not be expected even by haskell programmers.

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