Building and installing packages

[Sven Panne]

Simon Marlow wrote:
> So can't we build separate packages for each distribution?  We already
> have to build different packages for various versions of Redhat. [...]

*sigh* I was hoping to avoid one RPM for Redhat X.Y, one for Redhat X.Y+1,
one for SuSE A.B etc., but I'm slowly losing hope...

> We have a minimal post-install script for the GHC binary distribution,
> which just builds the package.conf file as I described above.

I'll have a detailed look at it when I find some time for this.

> Oh sure, I'm just saying it'll be much easier all round if we can do the
> autoconf-ing once and for all at build time.  Perhaps it won't be as
> flexible as possible, but I suspect that won't be a big problem in
> practice.  I'm prepared to be convinced otherwise, though.

This is probably an instance of the Glorious 80-20 Rule, so the simpler
way is probably the right one (initially :-).

Cheers,
   Sven