Re: [arch-haskell] Dropping (most of) AUR?

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 21:01, Bernardo Barros wrote:

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On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Magnus Therning

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Any thoughts or comments on this?

But there is also cases like qtHaskell that are not straightforward to build by hand, and it is not in hackage. That should have a [aur] if not present in [haskell]

qtHaskell is special, because it's not on Hackage. That's why it isn't in [haskell].

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In most cases since cabal does a better job, [aur] packages should be strongly discouraged.

IMNSHO we should never look at cabal as a replacement for an Arch repo or [aur].

How do you make the distinction between using cabal-install and [haskell] in you day-to-day use. I tend to use cabal-install for developpement and [haskell] for production. But often the two are quite close and I end up trying to add these packages to [haskell]. There is also issues with cabal-install itself and in combination to Arch. For instance cabal-install will build/install a package which may exists in [haskell]. Does anyone have a solution for that? Second, there is no cabal-uninstall and packages are easily broken by Arch updates. -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr