Re: [arch-haskell] Near past, present & future

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"Abhishek" == Abhishek Dasgupta writes:

Abhisek> Sometimes we need to package haskell packages which have Abhishek> their dependencies in AUR. I suppose for most common Haskell Abhishek> applications, the dependencies will be taken care of by having Abhishek> haskell-platform installed, but it would be nice to have some Abhishek> way of having the dependency auto-updated in the case it has Abhishek> to be added to [community] manually. Solution for everything would be to have hacman (or pinky as suggested in #arch-haskell) - wrapper for pacman written in Haskell, using libalpm and enhanced to use cabal-install. Some advantages would be: 1) all the deps would be (hopefully) properly resolved by using cabal-install 2) the hacman (pinky) would be (hopefully) more robust and feature-wise than yaourt 3) hacman (pinky) could be used by non-haskell users exposing to to the wonderful land of Haskell (e.g. there is nice himerge GUI for Gentoo written in Haskell), i.e Real-World-Haskell used for system admin 4) no need for cabal2arch 'cause we would use *.cabal descriptions directly from Hackage 5) single tool to handle all Arch-related system tasks I'm not sure how difficult it would be to write it to support all the above features, but I'm open for flaming ;) Sincerely, Gour