Jason Dagit wrote:
In particular, I advise my friends not to install GHC from apt on Debian/Ubuntu because of the way the packages are fractured on those distros.
Fractured?
Nothing but problems for casual Haskell hackers. If you know your distro and Haskell well, then sure it's easy to install all the packages that constitute a normal ghc install.
Well I admit that having done a lot of debian packaging in my day job I know the debian packaging system pretty well. I chose to stick to the debian packages because I found cabal to be a pain in the neck in comparison :-).
I've heard that from a distro point of view the split packages are nice and that the solution to my complaint is a proper meta or virtual package.
My overwhelming complaint about the packages in Ubuntu and Debian stable/testing is that they are for ghc-6.8.2.
I wonder when we'll get a good haskell virtual package on Debian?
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