Proposal: Add-on packs

[Jason Dagit]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Mark Lentczner
<mark.lentczner at gmail.com> wrote:
> How would an add-on pack be any different than a package installed from
> Hackage?

I expect it would be different in the way that anything installed as
part of the platform is different: It's a blessed version and part of
a coherent set of packages.

> Why not just package WxHaskell in a way that cabal install WxHaskell is
> sufficient?

This does not seem to be an attainable goal for packages that have
substantial non-haskell dependencies. For example, despite lots of
effort Gtk2hs is still quite cumbersome to install.

Jason