commercialhaskell / commercialhaskell/stack
Give recommendations for how to install system libraries
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Description
It'd be cool to recommend things like `sudo apt-get install libpq-dev` or even just `sudo apt-cache search libpq`. On windows, it should recommend something like `stack exec -- pacman -S ...`
From a comment on https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/1384 by amigalemming:
> You can use the pkgconfig-depends field of Cabal for showing external
> dependencies. An automated tool could scan available packages of Ubuntu or
> Debian or MSYS/Arch for the according .pc files.
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