On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 07:31:01PM +0100, Fabien Dubosson wrote: [...]
So to improve user experience with Haskell I suggest two improvements:
1. Create a `Haskell` page in the wiki to explain: - What is Haskell - The different ways to handle packages (AUR/Cabal/ArchHaskell) - All other Haskell-related stuffs (Haskell-platform, etc...)
Excellent initiative for improvements. Just please make sure to also include some text mentioning that there are official Haskell packages living in [extra] & [community].
2. Remove from AUR all `haskell-*` packages that are both: - Not needed as dependency of another package, and - Orphan
I suspect you'll run into objections to removing these packages, since /removing/ is what is normally done, /orphaning/ is. In this particular case I think removing /is/ called for though: - The original maintainer of ArchHaskell, who did use AUR to host packages, added /a lot/ of packages; in the order of 2000 or so. Many of these have remained orphaned for more than a year (I believe). Removing them would clean up AUR and they are unlikely to be missed. - It's likely that many of the packages are unmaintained upstream now, so at least these packages ought to be removed. However, sifting out the unmaintained packages out of such a significant number of packages is nearly a herculean task, better to just remove them all. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Finagle's First Law: To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.