On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 03:20:08PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 10:00:32AM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > > As a Haskell developer, I find cabal much more convenient than nothing, > > in the situation where the library I want is not packaged by Debian yet. > > If I want my haskell libraries and programs to reach a wide audience, I > > need to learn Cabal anyway. > > If you are writing libraries to add to the language, then I don't consider > you a normal developer using the language.
Well, my point stands if I were writing a mere Haskell user-oriented program for that matter. > You generally don't have to because things are in Debian archives already. It can be a chicken and egg problem. I see .debs often when a repository does exist (spotify, dropbox I think, google chrome) and many situations where a repository does not (humble indie bundle) > If you want bleeding edge, then you are not a normal user and you > certainly aren't a system administrator that wants to keep a controlled > system they can reproduce. I must admit I'm losing touch of precisely what you are arguing here. I guess it's not "everything that matters will be packaged with Debian" hence the previous paragraph re: external apt repositories. Yet, I don't suppose you're arguing that availability in an external apt repository is any guarantee of quality (Or at least I hope you're not). I don't think we're necessarily talking about bleeding edge, either. If something is not packaged in Debian, it's not necessarily bleeding edge. > I know dpkg --get-selections will tell me all the software installed on > the system so I can do the same on another one. If yet another package > maanger gets involved I have to know about it and do something different > to handle that. That's not a good thing. True. But you also lose lots of other information, such as what is marked automatic, the contents of your debconf DB and corresponding changes in /etc, non-corresponding changes in /etc… dpkg --get-selections is not and has never been a solution to the problem you are describing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130205172651.GB21754@debian
