Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC maintenance on Arch

If all you want is the Haskell Platform, I believe the Arch policy is to provide all those packages in the official [extra] repository. (If those are broken because of the new ghc, just use IgnorePkg to avoid the ghc update.) The [haskell] and other ArchHaskell repos are for the rest of Hackage that's not in the Platform. On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

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Now I'm going to run the risk of upsetting you quite a bit by being completely blunt.

Indeed.

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You come across in your mail like someone who has thought through your own situation, but fail to see the larger picture. You do know *your*

May I ask you a question, then?

Does the Haskell Platform have any reason to exist?

Supposedly, the Haskell community backs the Haskell Platform as the way that most users should be using the Platform. Yet we have here a vendor platform which does not support it, and newcomers who notice this and question it are chastised for not thinking about the needs of other people. This suggests that the Haskell Platform is unimportant and perhaps disruptive to some significant group of people... is this so?

And then, looking at your own message, I must ask: have you considered that the Platform is aimed at the great many people who do not have large amounts of expertise maintaining their own personal Haskell ecosystem. Or are your needs so important that these people must in fact be told to deal?

Or, to phrase in your own words:

You come across in your mail like someone who has thought through your

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own situation, but fail to see the larger picture.

-- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix/linux, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure http://sinenomine.net

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