Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage on Linux

deteego:

If people just wanted an auto udpate version of cabal that works through arch's package management, then there should have just been a pacman wrapper which when you install/update haskell libraries/packages, it creates a local package through cabal2arch instead of using AUR.

bauerbill --hackage supports this (its a good tool). However, one benefit of AUR + Hackage is that cabal2arch was developed and maintained -- which solves the problem of resolving C libraries for the distro -- something cabal-install can't do. -- Don