On 24 August 2010 15:50, Mathew de Detrich
I used to use archlinux packages however it became a pain for the following reasons
- packages on archlinux don't auto update when cabal does. This becomes really annoying when package X gets updated on cabal but not on arch and causes conflicts with other packages
Huh? Are you referring to doing a "cabal update"? If so, how is this causing conflicts? Are you mixing and matching distro packages with packages installed by hand? I thought Don kept the external Haskell repository up to date with the packages on Hackage...
- in some situations doing a general update with arch (through clyde or packer) breaks ghc (last time it happened packer tried to uninstall/update arch packages which failed because those packages had dependencies. The files got removed but since unregister failed ghc thought they still existed)
Is this the problem with bad packages or the package manager playing up?
Apart from base/required packages, unless your linux distro has proper metapackages its in my opinion just better off using cabal install (and only use arch packages for binaries)
What do you mean by "metapackages"? -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com