627446 – dev-haskell/stack-bin needs a symlink from /usr/bin/stack to /usr/bin/stack-bin

Bug 627446 - dev-haskell/stack-bin needs a symlink from /usr/bin/stack to /usr/bin/stack-bin

Summary: dev-haskell/stack-bin needs a symlink from /usr/bin/stack to /usr/bin/stack-bin

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Haskell Language team

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Reported:	2017-08-10 10:15 UTC by anonymous
Modified:	2017-08-26 11:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description anonymous 2017-08-10 10:15:23 UTC

Because stack scripts depend on the existence of stack, the lack of stack executable is inconvenient.

If I replaced stack with stack-bin in stack scripts, the scripts will not be portable across different gentoo machines or different linux distributions.

Comment 1 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-08-26 08:05:21 UTC

Which stack scripts you are talking about? The manually written ones?

I'd prefer dev-haskell/stack and dev-haskell/stack-bin to be installable in parallel by default (similar to firefox/firefox-bin).

I can add an USE=symlink to dev-haskell/stack-bin to allow substitution
if it would be file for you.

Comment 2 anonymous 2017-08-26 10:24:51 UTC

Yeah, that'd be cool.
If USE=symlink was set, stack-bin should not co-exist with stack.

Comment 3 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-08-26 11:34:05 UTC

Added USE=symlink and blocked against dev-haskell/stack as:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=568894d9234df5ea6c041ca28f3f58461e41ecc4
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3fdd4fa407378b296b28396fcbbab34669bd3bb9

Thanks for the report!