On 02/04/2014 10:29 PM, tam@hiddenrock.com wrote:
Hi there --
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around how to work with Hackage in the context of a Linux distribution that already has its own package management situation. Between distribution-provided packages containing Haskell programs and/or libraries, system-wide cabal installs, user-specific cabal installs, and cabal sandboxes, I can't seem to work out how the hackage/cabal architects intend people (ie, me) to juggle things.
The most robust approach is to find or create distro packages for everything you need. I'm biased, but I think Gentoo has it best here because its hackport utility makes it trivial to create ebuilds for anything on hackage. We also gladly accept new ebuilds into our Haskell overlay. Arch and Debian are probably tied for second, but I don't know enough to say. In any case, you should track down the Haskell community for your distro and ask them about the easiest way to make a distro package from hackage.