2011/12/18 Peter Hercek
On 12/17/2011 11:07 PM, Ethan Schoonover wrote:
As an end user, I effectively ignore the official Arch Haskell packages as they are so far out of date. I'm also now trying to disregard most of the AUR since I came across that thread. Haskell is starting to feel fragile on Arch.
What about moving *all* Haskell related packages to the Haskell Arch repo? All the Haskell Platform stuff, alex, happy, etc.
I'm actually in favour of this or a creation of haskell (or ghc-dependency) pacman group for anything which depends on ghc. This would allow me to postpone any ghc related update easily. That facilitates management of what haskell related package versions are installed on my machine.
I'm often out of sync too. But I'm mostly behind :)
Haskell packages in Arch are out of date because the haskell repo depends on packages in extra and in community, and beacuse of Haskell Platform. I think that a six-month-cycle update is in contrast to Arch philosophy. We should steak with the latest in hackage and it should be quite easy if every package is in archhaskell repo. Fabio