On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:01:15AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
A small milestone in the packaging business:
http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/arch-haskell-news-mar-14-2009-10...
More than 1000 Haskell packages packaged up for Arch Linux.
Hackage now has 1163 (+41) Haskell packages, of which 1007 (+33) have been natively packaged for Arch in AUR. That???s 33 new packages in two weeks, and lots of updates as well.
Read this week's updates on the blog.
-- Don
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