Personally, I like the latest version of GHC being in the repository, as that's the version I normally use.
What packages aren't working for you on 7.6? I find that they get updated pretty quickly, and if you run into any that aren't, feel free to send the authors a pull request. Almost everything is on github. - Clark On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:49 PM, <timothyho...@seznam.cz> wrote: > Hello, > Who is in charge of the ghc and haskell packages on Arch linux? The > current system isn't working. > > Arch linux tends to update packages very quickly. > > For ghc, always having the latest ghc isn't a good thing. At least if you > actually want to get some work done. A majority of the time the latest GHC > is unusable. This is because the packages in hackage simply don't keep up. > With the current ghc version(7.6.1) even some basic packages in hackage are > not upgraded yet. > > Right now, a large number of other haskell related packages are in the > arch repos. Other than gtk2hs, I think these packages are pointless > duplications. In the other cases, it has been my experience that it is > simpler to maintain these packages through cabal rather than through > pacman. Support for these packages in Arch should probably be dropped. > > If you want to get work done in Arch with haskell, you should only install > ghc and cabal-install(right now, you'll have to search the Internet for the > old binaries, because the arch repos usually don't keep the old versions > around). Then you should add these packages to "IgnorePkg =" in > pacman.conf this way things won't break every couple of months. You can > then choose to upgrade when you wish. > > I hope that someone who is involved with the haskell Arch stuff reads > this. The current model needs to be rethought. Linux should be sane by > default, but I've lost many many hours learning that arch's relationship > with haskell is not so :( Probably the best solution would be to make Arch > automatically keep two versions of ghc around at any given time. > > Thank you for your time, > Timothy Hobbs > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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