[Haskell-cafe] Definition of the Haskell standard library

[Lutz Donnerhacke]

* Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> Then, in effect, the "standard library" is all the X packages.  I wonder
> if it'd help to have some descriptions such as those above (better
> worded), and use them?  Cabal already has a "stability" indication, and
> that might serve, but we'd want to articulate much more clearly what it
> meant.

You need an external indicator, not an indicator from the package author.
It might be interesting to transform the dependency graph of cabalized
packaged at hackage into a ranking indicator.
It's like the Google Pagerank: Same benefit, same illness.