On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 06:50, Mathew de Detrich
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
Yes, this can be a bit irritating indeed. Though DonS is doing a great job keeping Arch up-to-date it does happen that he does silly things like go on holiday ;-)
- 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)
This is arguably an error in the Arch packages. The dependencies aren't quite as strict as they really should be. I've taken the approach of never letting pacman update any haskell-* package. Instead I do a small song-and-dance where I first remove the packages in question, and any package that depends on them, then I re-install what I just removed. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe