Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC maintenance on Arch

Arch does not keep 2 python packages. There are simply 2 pythons (different programs). And this is true not only for Arch but for practically any other distro. Obvious solution for arch is IgnorePkg in the pacman.conf. That's what i did (until Yesod officially supports newest ghc). On Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:24:16 PM UTC-7, timoth...@seznam.cz wrote:

Actually Arch has been accommodating in other cases when there was a stable library and a new/developing. It certainly keeps around two versions of python, autoconf, GTK, qt, gambas... The solution I'm proposing would be a little different than those cases, but on the same principle.

Timothy ---------- Původní zpráva ---------- Od: Patrick Palka javascript:> Datum: 28. 10. 2012 Předmět: Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC maintenance on Arch

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 5:54 PM, javascript:>wrote:

There seems to be a bit of a clash between ghc being a tool, and ghc being a toy. There need not be. Your works-for-me is great but it is meaningless to those of us who use ghc as a tool for larger projects.

This is not specific to GHC. Arch Linux, being a bleeding-edge Linux distribution, tends to prefer newer versions of software over more stable versions of software. I doubt that facet of Arch Linux will ever change, so perhaps you should reevaluate your choice of Linux distribution or avoid pacman/package updates for software whose stability and predictability is critical to you.