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+(define-module (kisshot haskell-packages)
+  #:export (haskell-packages-list)) 
+
+;; global variable to be acessed by external means
+(define haskell-packages-list '())
+
+;; almost any haskell package has ghc- in front of it
+(define-syntax haskell-packages
+  (syntax-rules ()
+    ((_ names ...)
+     (begin
+       (set! haskell-packages-list
+             (list (string-append "ghc-" (symbol->string 'names)) ...))))))
+
+
+;; Call the macro here to define haskell-packages-list
+(haskell-packages gi-gdk
+		  gi-gtk
+		  gi-gobject
+		  ;;gi-gtksource
+		  ;;gi-gtk-hs needs fixing in the channel
+		  haskell-gi
+		  haskell-gi-base
+		  haskell-gi-overloading
+		  async
+		  xmonad-contrib)