On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Pierre Radermecker
Hi,
I was just wondering why ghc and haskell-xmonad is duplicated in the [haskell-core] repo ?
Because it is much easier to maintain [haskell-core] that way.
It makes the process rather weak ... If I am not mistaken the last xorg update currently breaks haskell-xmonad.
I'm not sure what you mean by "weak" here. We used to base [haskell-core] (back then it was called just [haskell]) on [extra], but found it cumbersome to track changes--there was no way to be notified about changes to specific packages (maybe that's possible nowadays). We were also not able to track Hackage as closely as we want.
I guess there is a good reason but the [haskell-core] maintainer need now to be able to update as quick as the extra repo does.
No, you as the user of [haskell-core] should place it *above* [extra] in your pacman configuration to make sure that [haskell-core] packages are preferred over [extra]. Mixing Haskell packages from [extra] and [haskell-core] is *not* recommended, if you do you are entirely on your own. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus