On 2016-07-12 15:01 -0400, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
> > OTOH installing opam itself can be difficult because of its
> > dependencies, mostly aspcud.
> >
> > I just switched to gentoo, and there it is pretty much impossible unless
> > one's content with the internal solver.
> Did you consider packaging aspcud for gentoo? Are there gentoo-specific
> issues with that route?
An aspcud package exists - that is not the problem. The problem is its
horribly long and tangled list of dependencies. Which, unlike most
distros, includes build-only dependencies, of course. And which is
almost guaranteed to conflict with some other package you need for an
unrelated purpose.
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