From d502891ef0116d77203259affcd641a5a08f3942 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Spencer Janssen <sjanssen@cse.unl.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 15:31:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about already installed packages

---
 README | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 258886f..bb24097 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ Building:
 
 Get the dependencies
 
+    It is likely that you already have some of these dependencies.  To check
+    whether you've got a package run 'ghc-pkg list some_package_name'
+
     mtl             http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mtl-1.0
     X11             http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-1.2
         (Unfortunately X11-1.2 does not work correctly on AMD64.  The latest