On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 23:53 +0200, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
Sven Panne wrote:
Well, on a normal Linux distro a user should *never* have to call cabal (or any of its cousins) directly, the distro's package manager should be the used instead.
This is very theoretical.
Perfect is the enemy of good?
I use debian (stable) and have to install non-deb Haskell libraries all the time. No way distro package maintainers can provide packages for each and every library out there, and even for 'standard' libs (whatever that may mean) sometimes you need a newer or an older version of a certain library (relative to what the distro offers).
Ubuntu (which gets most of its packages from Debian) lists 60 GHC-related packages (apt-cache search libghc), which hopefully serves to build a reasonable set of applications. Ideally, Hackage could be provide its libraries as apt/yum repositories - at least for libraries that are reasonably stable and with reasonable quality. -k