Jason Dagit wrote: > In particular, I advise my friends not to install GHC from apt on > Debian/Ubuntu because of the way the packages are fractured on those > distros.
Fractured? > Nothing but problems for casual Haskell hackers. If you > know your distro and Haskell well, then sure it's easy to install all > the packages that constitute a normal ghc install. Well I admit that having done a lot of debian packaging in my day job I know the debian packaging system pretty well. I chose to stick to the debian packages because I found cabal to be a pain in the neck in comparison :-). > I've heard that from a distro > point of view the split packages are nice and that the solution to my > complaint is a proper meta or virtual package. My overwhelming complaint about the packages in Ubuntu and Debian stable/testing is that they are for ghc-6.8.2. > I wonder when we'll get a good haskell virtual package on Debian? What would this package do? Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe