Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 30.01.2013, 14:43 -0800 schrieb Edward Z. Yang:
Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of Wed Jan 30 12:59:48 -0800 2013:
another reason why Cabal is no package manager¹.
Based on the linked post, it seems that you are arguing that cabal-install is not a package manager, and thus it is not necessary for it to duplicate the work that real package managers e.g. Debian or Ubuntu put into vetting, signing and releasing software. (Though I am not sure, so please correct me if I am wrong.)
I’m not against cryptographically signed packages on hackage. In fact, I would whole-heatedly appreciate it, as it would make my work as a package maintainer easier. I was taking the opportunity to point out an advantage of established package management systems, to shamelessly advertise my work there, as not everyone sees distro-packaged libraries as a useful thing. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata