On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 23:53 +0200, Benjamin Franksen wrote: > Sven Panne wrote:
> > Well, on a normal Linux distro a user should *never* have to call cabal (or > > any of its cousins) directly, the distro's package manager should be the > > used > > instead. > This is very theoretical. Perfect is the enemy of good? > I use debian (stable) and have to install non-deb > Haskell libraries all the time. No way distro package maintainers can > provide packages for each and every library out there, and even > for 'standard' libs (whatever that may mean) sometimes you need a newer or > an older version of a certain library (relative to what the distro offers). Ubuntu (which gets most of its packages from Debian) lists 60 GHC-related packages (apt-cache search libghc), which hopefully serves to build a reasonable set of applications. Ideally, Hackage could be provide its libraries as apt/yum repositories - at least for libraries that are reasonably stable and with reasonable quality. -k _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
