Bug 627446

Summary:	dev-haskell/stack-bin needs a symlink from /usr/bin/stack to /usr/bin/stack-bin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	anonymous <fakih18716>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Haskell Language team <haskell>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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!