[MacPorts] #61263: Linking errors in multiple haskell ports

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#61263: Linking errors in multiple haskell ports
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  Reporter:  nickgaya                            |      Owner:  neverpanic
      Type:  defect                              |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal                              |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports                               |    Version:  2.6.3
Resolution:                                      |   Keywords:
      Port:  hs-alex hs-cabal-install hs-happy   |
  hs-hscolour                                    |
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Comment (by neverpanic):

 We should just outright delete haskell-platform and all hs-* ports.

 The only reason why I haven't done it, is that we need to check which of
 the ports are still referenced from other Portfiles (hopefully none), and
 what to do about them.

 There's little point in making haskell-platform an alias for a combination
 of (ghc, cabal, stack), because by definition (see
 https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html), haskell-platform is ghc +
 a number of tools + a number of libraries. It does not make sense for us
 to offer a haskell-platform port that does not install this set of tools
 and libraries (which we wouldn't be doing, if we only added dependencies
 on cabal and stack).

 There's also little point in keeping the ports around and marking them as
 deleted or obsolete, since as you know, they can currently not be
 installed, so there can't be any users that still have them installed, and
 those users on old systems that actually still have a copy would likely
 rather keep their working copy rather than being upgraded to a notice that
 says "these files are now all gone".

 Help is very welcome in opening a PR that will just delete all hs-* ports.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61263#comment:9>
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