[Fedora-haskell-list] [Bug 750317] make ghc base package install all of ghc

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750317

--- Comment #7 from Jens Petersen  2011-11-01 08:34:15 EDT ---
Thanks again for the report.

(In reply to comment #5)
> Maybe we really want the ghc base package to be a meta package
> that pulls in "everything" to make the initial install friendlier
> for newcomers.

Ok, ghc-7.0.4-36.fc17 should provide a base metapackage
which installs all of ghc (ghc-compiler and ghc-devel).
So in future if you install ghc you will have a working
QuickCheck, etc out of the box.

I am planning to backport this soon to F16 and F15.