2011/12/18 Peter Hercek <[email protected]> > On 12/17/2011 11:07 PM, Ethan Schoonover wrote: > >> As an end user, I effectively ignore the official Arch Haskell >> packages as they are so far out of date. I'm also now trying to >> disregard most of the AUR since I came across that thread. Haskell is >> starting to feel fragile on Arch. >> >> >> What about moving *all* Haskell related packages to the Haskell Arch >> repo? All the Haskell Platform stuff, alex, happy, etc. >> > > I'm actually in favour of this or a creation of haskell > (or ghc-dependency) pacman group for anything which > depends on ghc. This would allow me to postpone any > ghc related update easily. That facilitates management > of what haskell related package versions are installed > on my machine. > > I'm often out of sync too. But I'm mostly behind :) > > Haskell packages in Arch are out of date because the haskell repo depends on packages in extra and in community, and beacuse of Haskell Platform. I think that a six-month-cycle update is in contrast to Arch philosophy. We should steak with the latest in hackage and it should be quite easy if every package is in archhaskell repo.
Fabio
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