Quoting Pierre Radermecker (2013-05-29 14:02:19)
I am/was also a user of habs-web for roughly two use-cases: * haskell programs such as git-annex or notmuch-web [0] that I want to build once and install multiple times.
Personally I don't think it makes much sense to include "programs" such a yesod or git-annex in [haskell-core]
This is not what I meant.
Git-annex for instance requires a lot of dependencies which make it quite tricky to build from source. I had much luck with it by just using the provided binary tar. For the record, at some point, various aur package were failing to bring a working git-annex because of some sort of incompatibilities with the arch curl system version (to my knowledge the provided [haskell-web] package has never work).
I would like to see as many of git-annex/notmuch-web/... dependencies supported in either [haskell-core] or repos similar to [haskell-web]. For instance all git-annex dependencies are supported by Debian (yes the developer is a Debian packager). What should be aimed at, IMHO is to provide a larger set of packages at a smaller cost or at least better distributed.