On Monday, October 14, 2013, Dag Odenhall  wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Brandon Allbery &lt;<a href="javascript:_e({}, &#39;cvml&#39;, &#39;allbery.b@gmail.com&#39;);" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</p>



<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important"></p><div><p></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Nope. Arch is a rolling release distribution whose policy is directly opposed to the &quot;stable release&quot; philosophy of the Platform. They will package latest versions of everything, not a &quot;stable release&quot;. You *cannot* satisfy their requirements with the Platform; ignore them.</blockquote>


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<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">I would say it depends on what you mean by “latest”, since one answer could be “latest haskell-platform”.  Does Arch Linux ship the latest Python packages, even if an older version is included in the stdlib of the latest Python release?</p>
</div></div></blockquote><div>There isn&#39;t a separate &quot;Python&quot; and &quot;Python Platform&quot;. Packages that ship with Python are maintained in Python&#39;s repository. Those that are also maintained separately usually have another package/module name altogether so both can be installed without interfering with one another. </div>
<div><br></div><div>-bob</div>