* On Saturday, March 28 2009, Piyush P Kurur wrote:
Arch Linux as a distribution and also as a platform for Haskell has been impressive. Forced me, an ardent Debian fan, to switch from Debian stable to Arch on all my desktops and laptops. However I find the lack of documentation packages slightly of a problem. May be it is also possible that I am missing something here. For example I had to wget the ghc documentation on the site to make a local copy.
A comparison with Debian Lenny which has become stable recently show that Debian comes with lots of doc packages for example for any package libghc-foo there is always a package libghc-foo-doc package.
I guess it will not be difficult to package a documentation packages. Otherwise one has to edit the appropriate aur build file. This is okey but I like the Debian idea of having a doc package.
Regards
ppk
Actually, the current ghc package (6.10.1-2) _does_ come with documentation: the package supplies lots of files to /usr/share/doc/ghc, but that is not the case for other packages. I guess that that documentation accidentally slipped in, because there is no mention of enabling or disabling docs for ghc in the ./configure. That being said, there isn't really anything bad about keeping the haddocks (or building them), provided that they aren't too big: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-April/005574.html