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diff --git a/dev-haskell/cabal-helper/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/cabal-helper/metadata.xml deleted file mode 100644 index b6837b40dcda..000000000000 --- a/dev-haskell/cabal-helper/metadata.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> -<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> -<pkgmetadata> - <maintainer type="project"> - <email>haskell@gentoo.org</email> - <name>Gentoo Haskell</name> - </maintainer> - <longdescription> - @cabal-helper@ provides a library which wraps the internal use of executables - to lift the restrictions imposed by linking against versions of GHC before - @7.10@. - - @cabal-helper@ uses a wrapper executable to compile the actual cabal-helper - executable at runtime while linking against an arbitrary version of - Cabal. This runtime-compiled helper executable is then used to extract - various bits and peices from Cabal\'s on disk state (dist/setup-config) - written by it's configure command. - - In addition to this the wrapper executable also supports installing any - version of Cabal from hackage in case it cannot be found in any available - package database. The wrapper installs these instances of the Cabal library - into a private package database so as to not interfere with the user's - packages. - - Furthermore the wrapper supports one special case namely reading a state - file for Cabal itself. This is needed as Cabal compiles it's Setup.hs using - itself and not using any version of Cabal installed in any package database. - - @cabal-helper@ can compile with @Cabal >= 1.14@ but requires @Cabal >= 1.16@ - at runtime. - </longdescription> -</pkgmetadata> |