2011/12/18 Peter Hercek <phercek@gmail.com>
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packages as they are so far out of date.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.
(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Haskell packages in Arch are out of date because the haskell repo depends on packages in extra and in community, and beacuse of Haskell Platform.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