I use a few haskell- packages from AUR that are orphaned: haskell-bytestring-mmap : Orphan haskell-crypto-random-api : Orphan haskell-pem : Orphan haskell-setenv : Orphan I suppose I should get around to setting up a [haskell-core]-like repo to host them, though?
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Fabien Dubosson <fabien.dubos...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hello ArchHaskellers, > > This thread follows a discussion started on github [1]. > > Brief summary: The discussion started from a pull request to make > `haskell-archlinux` work with GHC 7.6.3. Magnus informed me that this > project is nearly abandoned and asked for my usage of it. I answered > that my goal was to write an Haskell tool to monitor AUR `haskell-*` > packages because a lot are outdated/orphan. Then Magnus explained me > that you decided to drop AUR support some years ago. Finally I gave the > reasons of my original idea and we agreed to port the discussion here. > > The original observation that brings me planning to monitor AUR packages > came from the forum. People continue to use AUR packages (or even cabal) > for Haskell because they don't know that an ArchHaskell effort exist to > bring, in a clean way, Haskell packages to Archlinux. For me, the two > reasons are 1. all old `haskell-*` packages still exist in AUR, and 2. > the informations about [haskell-core] repo are «hidden» in the Haskell > packaging guidelines page in the wiki — not an obvious place for normal > users. > > So to improve user experience with Haskell I suggest two improvements: > > 1. Create a `Haskell` page in the wiki to explain: > - What is Haskell > - The different ways to handle packages (AUR/Cabal/ArchHaskell) > - All other Haskell-related stuffs (Haskell-platform, etc...) > 2. Remove from AUR all `haskell-*` packages that are both: > - Not needed as dependency of another package, and > - Orphan > > So any observations, objections, suggestions, recommendations before I > start to work on that (i.e. create the wiki page and prepare the list)? > > Kind regards, > Fabien > > [1] https://github.com/archhaskell/archlinux/pull/14 > > > _______________________________________________ > arch-haskell mailing list > arch-haskell@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell > >
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