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
- 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)
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)
On 23/08/2010 2:21 AM, "Brandon S Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
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Hash: SHA1On 08/22/2010 07:19 AM, Jonas Almström Duregård wrote:
No, the Windows and OSX installers are just that. They provide no
>> Now, you say it's preferable to use the na...
facilities for finding packages, identifying the package a given file
came from, or dependency tracking. OSX's installer doesn't even have
uninstall support; it records the installed files, but provides no
mechanism for undoing configuration changes such as removing
package-installed kernel modules.
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