Hi Leif,
The packages in extra and community are built with enabled-shared. I find this useful because I then have the option of linking dynamically against them in things I compile myself. I was hoping that option would get enabled in the PKGBUILDs generated by cabal2arch.
this is a good point. Cabal may not yet take advantage of shared libraries, but ArchLinux users of those libraries very well might. My feeling is that a binary repository should include shared libraries. We cannot make that change lightly, though, because our PKGBUILDs for executables declare their dependencies as $makedepends, based on the assumption that they're linked statically. This wouldn't be true, if those binaries link a dynamic GHC run-time, etc. It sounds like we could set --enable-shared for library builds, but we'd have to set --disable-shared for builds that involve executables. The alternative is to upgrade $makedepends to $depends. Am I missing something? Take care, Peter