Re: [xmonad] The minimal xmonad.hs has error

I checked using yaourt -Ss, it shows the installed version is community/xmonad0.9-2.1. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Christian Walther wrote:

Hi,

2010/1/10 Yuliang Wang :

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The "ghc-pkg check" says

There are problems in package xmonad-0.9.1: dependency X11-1.5.0.0 doesn't exist

The following packages are broken, either because they have a problem listed above, or because they depend on a broken package. xmonad-0.9.1

I installed xmonad through pacman in Arch Linux.

You didn't by any chance install xmonad from AUR? Because there is a package named "xmonad-darcs 20091222-1" and this package has a dependency to X11-1.5.0.0, which is in [community-testing]. If you really want to use this version you need to set up [community-testing] in /etc/pacman.conf, refresh the database (pacman -S --refresh) and install haskell-x11 from it.

However, I'm using [core], [extra] and [community] only. The latter supplies xmonad and xmonad-contrib in version 0.9-2.1. Does everything I want. The drawback of AUR packages is that you need to take of any updates yourself, because AUR doesn't handle those. So if you really want to use it, but you don't update regularly, your xmonad install will eventually become older than the one supplied by [community]. Which is why I would recommend you use xmonad from [community].

HTH & HAND Christian Walther

-- Sincerely, Yuliang Wang