Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux

2014-04-10 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Jeremy Audet wrote: > > Doesn't every language with its own package manager have this problem? > For example, Python. Is there a good solution? Users knowing about this > issue and making their own decisions is the current solution on every > distro I'm familiar

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux

2014-04-10 Thread Jeremy Audet
> Doesn't every language with its own package manager have this problem? For example, Python. Is there a good solution? Users knowing about this issue and making their own decisions is the current solution on every distro I'm familiar with. Aye. There are some upshots to allowing users to instal

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux

2014-04-10 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 04/09/2014 01:27 AM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: Problem 2: Users are confused whether they should install packages from the repos or using cabal-install. This in turn sometimes causes them to install some packages from official repos, some from the aur, and some using cabal-install Explanation: Pa

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux

2014-04-09 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > Now that aside is finished, what is the deal with that arch-haskell > group? Is it still going? Would they want to provide packages > officially instead? I wouldn't actually be opposed to this idea. A lot of effort is duplicated with rega

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux

2014-04-09 Thread Daniel Micay
On 09/04/14 11:12 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 10/04/14 12:58, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: I'm guessing this means cabal-install now is the only package outside of [community] that uses ghc to build. Is that right? >> That wo