Renamed Haskell Applications

[Shaun Amott]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:16:32PM +0200, Gabor PALI wrote:
> 
> Recently I have tagged the following popular but Cabalized
> applications
> in the Ports Collection with the "hs-" prefix:
> 
> - darcs [1]: devel/darcs -> devel/hs-darcs
> - pandoc [2]: textproc/pandoc -> textproc/hs-pandoc
> - xmonad [3]: x11-wm/xmonad -> x11-wm/hs-xmonad, x11-wm/xmonad-contrib
> -> x11-wm/hs-xmonad-contrib
> - xmobar [4]: x11/xmobar -> x11/hs-xmobar
> 

[snip]

> 
> Please send "+1" or "-1" depending on whether you support or object
> this
> change.  Thank you!
> 

-1

I tend to agree with Dmitry, for the reasons he articulated. In the case
of end-user applications, the language of choice generally is of no
concern to the user.

However: we lack consistency elsewhere in ports with the other prefixes.
This probably just stirs things up even more. :-)

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