"David Menendez"
Someone in a previous thread made an analogy between GHC and the linux kernel. I imagine that third-party Haskell distributions, consisting of GHC/Hugs/whatever and some bundled packages, would meet the desire for a "batteries included" Haskell implementation without tying the most popular libraries to GHC releases.
Well - the various Linux distributions certainly could do this - providing a virtual "haskell-libs" package that just pulls in a bunch of commonly used packages. It'd be nice, of course, if that package was reasonably consistent across distributions, and if there were a corresponding installer for those other operating systems. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants