-- Yeah, yet they update nonetheless, so you will have a working
xmonad, even it's not 'bleeding edge' (but IMHO it's close enough to
that).
If you want a kind of 'nightly build' or the very latest features at
any cost, then better go make a local install yourself via cabal or
stack or whatever (see the wikis), and have some extra fun with
additional configuration of the compiler and the installer. ;-)
I personally don't bother about that anymore and just want a stable
xmonad along with my system packages and additional haskell apps
like pandoc etc., and I am fine with that. I don't mind if it's
0.15, 0.16, or 0.17 for my everyday usage, as long as it's stable
and save updating. Haskell stuff versions change very often, you
know, and xmonad is just a small part of it, right? Maintaining
these for Linux repos must be hell (e.g. the fork Arch32 gave up on
that)!
I just don't need to build xmonad stuff from the e.g. AUR or locally
with cabal myself anymore – sure, these always worked for some time,
but then broke with the next manual update, because one tiny haskell
package didn't match because of a missing version or others deps
were missing. – So, in other words: you'd learn to stay with your
local, non-OS conform haskell/xmonad/... install for longer anyway;
and you will very soon get 'outdated' then. – But unless you
are a haskell developer yourself, permanently wanting to have a
newest xmonad is not worth the pain!
However, it's your choice.
Besides, I doubt, there is any Linux distro at all with a priority
on providing the latest xmonad, though it in deed is IMHO the
greatest tiling WM in X.
if you're asking what distro maintains xmonad packages
(the best), I count on Arch.
They update all official 'xmonad' packages frequently,
because their haskell packages themselves also are
updated quite often (could be once, twice a week). –
Alternatively you can make your own local xmonad build,
independent from the distro. And sure, you also have to
decide which compiler to use. I highly recommend
consulting the wikis from both Arch Linux and Xmonad.
HTH
Am 03.07.22 um 05:07 schrieb Eyal Erez:
Does anyone know why the xmonad packages seem
to be broken in Debian?
When I try to install libghc-xmonad-dev
and/or libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev, I get an error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libghc-xmonad-dev : Depends:
libghc-x11-dev-1.9.1-11a5c
Depends:
libghc-base-dev-4.13.0.0-2f220 but it is not
installable
Depends:
libghc-containers-dev-0.6.2.1-ab1cf but it is not
installable
Depends:
libghc-data-default-dev-0.7.1.1-958e3
Depends:
libghc-directory-dev-1.3.6.0-49fdf but it is not
installable
Depends:
libghc-extensible-exceptions-dev-0.1.1.4-10872 but
it is not installable
Depends:
libghc-filepath-dev-1.4.2.1-103b6 but it is not
installable
Depends:
libghc-mtl-dev-2.2.2-7208c but it is not
installable
Depends:
libghc-process-dev-1.6.9.0-88a89 but it is not
installable
Depends:
libghc-setlocale-dev-1.0.0.9-a89d6 but it is not
installable
Depends:
libghc-unix-dev-2.7.2.2-bb33f but it is not
installable
Depends:
libghc-utf8-string-dev-1.0.1.1-866d7 but it is not
installable
Recommends:
libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev but it is not going to
be installed
When I tried to enquire in the distros forums
(which is a Debian variant) they indicated that
the problem is upstream. Does anyone know what the
issue is? Which distro to folks use with xmonad?
Where is it best supported?