2015-09-24 14:38 GMT+03:00 Alec Ten Harmsel <a...@alectenharmsel.com>: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:27:43PM +0300, gevisz wrote: >> I have dev-lang/ghc in my world file. >> >> Today, while updating the system, the portage >> wanted to update it. Ok. But why it pulles in >> ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2? > > Like all good language authors, the ghc authors wrote a lot of the > language and toolchain in Haskell, so you need a Haskell compiler to > compile ghc. > >> >>> Downloading >> >>> 'http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2' >> --2015-09-24 14:12:02-- >> http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2 >> Resolving mirror.netcologne.de... 194.8.197.22, 2001:4dd0:1234:1::deb >> Connecting to mirror.netcologne.de|194.8.197.22|:80... connected. >> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK >> Length: 100573133 (96M) [application/octet-stream] >> Saving to: '/usr/portage/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2' >> >> /usr/portage/distfi 100%[=====================>] 95.91M 193KB/s in 9m >> 54s >> >> 2015-09-24 14:21:56 (165 KB/s) - >> '/usr/portage/distfiles/ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2' saved >> [100573133/100573133] >> > > There is a 'ghcbootstrap' USE flag that you can set to use your locally > installed ghc to build the new ghc.
Ok. Thank you for information.
