Re: [arch-haskell] ghc: /usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/hslogo-16.png exists in filesystem

[Mateusz Loskot]

Ramana,
>From user's perspective, I guess I agree the Arch packages should be
preferred.
I'm new to Haskell, so I'm not able to comment on packaging strategies.
I simply listen to what experts say, trying to make my own sense of it.

-- 
Mateusz  Łoskot
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On 15 Oct 2012 17:22, "Ramana Kumar" <ram...@member.fsf.org> wrote:

> It is possible and desirable to manage haskell packages with pacman on
> Arch Linux!
> It is just not perfect yet - the arch-haskell project needs your help.
> Perhaps you could point Ian Ross this way too.
> (For me personally, using the [haskell] and [haskell-extra] repositories
> has worked out well so far, and it's nice knowing everything is managed
> properly by pacman.)
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net>wrote:
>
>> On 15 October 2012 11:00, Thomas Friedrich <i...@suud.de> wrote:
>> > 2012/10/13 Fabio Riga <rifa...@gmail.com>:
>> >> 2012/10/13 Ramana Kumar <ram...@member.fsf.org>
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm not sure why that error happened but it happened to me too.
>> >>
>> >> The problem seems to be that those files were not part of any package,
>> >> but now are in ghc.
>> >>
>> >>> I removed the offending files manually and tried again, and ran into
>> more problems (although everything installed, there were many warnings
>> about interface files
>> >>> being the wrong version and being skipped).
>> >>> So I'm not sure what the correct way out is. Perhaps it will require
>> some manual removals then reinstalls.
>> >>
>> >> This is a problem with ghc-pkg version. For previous version of ghc I
>> had to do:
>> >>
>> >>   $ pacman -Rcs ghc
>> >>
>> >> then reinstall ghc and needed haskell-* packages. I think you'll want
>> >> to remove the offending files before installing ghc again. I hope this
>> >> solve the problem.
>> >
>> >
>> > Why is it that every single time there is a ghc-update, I have to
>> > remove everything and reinstall everything haskell related. Haskell is
>> > such a cool language but keeping a Haskell environment up-to-date is
>> > sometimes just a real pain.
>>
>> As Haskell newbie and new born Hakyll users, I've found recent
>> replies [1] by Ian Ross interesting:
>>
>> "I'm also using Arch Linux on x86_64.  I would strongly recommend *not*
>> using the Arch packages for most Haskell things.  I use hsenv instead."
>>
>> I haven't switched myself and I still use the packages, but I started to
>> wonder if Ian's got the point indeed.
>>
>> [1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/hakyll/9G1qXBA4raU/discussion
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
>>
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