2008/11/15 Gour
Solution for everything would be to have hacman (or pinky as suggested in #arch-haskell) - wrapper for pacman written in Haskell, using libalpm and enhanced to use cabal-install.
What about other automated systems for installing stuff? It would be nice to have them too and not be restricted to just Haskell: * RubyGems (gem install...) * PyPi (don't know if there's automated installer here as well) * Perl (cpan, though Firmicus has a script to convert them to PKGBUILDs) A generic API to which these kind of installation systems could be added as modules would be really cool.
Some advantages would be:
1) all the deps would be (hopefully) properly resolved by using cabal-install
2) the hacman (pinky) would be (hopefully) more robust and feature-wise than yaourt
Such a tool in Haskell would be really nice. I've not much idea of Haskell, but it is indeed beautiful... I just can't wrap my head around functional programming much. Simple programs are OK, but anything a bit more complicated makes me run back to Python :)
3) hacman (pinky) could be used by non-haskell users exposing to to the wonderful land of Haskell (e.g. there is nice himerge GUI for Gentoo written in Haskell), i.e Real-World-Haskell used for system admin
4) no need for cabal2arch 'cause we would use *.cabal descriptions directly from Hackage
5) single tool to handle all Arch-related system tasks
One tool to rule them all One tool to bring them to Arch And in simplicity bind them. :D -- Abhishek