[arch-haskell] [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: Xmonad version?

Bernardo Barros bernardobarros2 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 04:58:24 CET 2011


On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Fabio Riga <rifabio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Haskell packages in Arch are out of date because the haskell repo depends on
> packages in extra and in community, and beacuse of Haskell Platform. I think
> that a six-month-cycle update is in contrast to Arch philosophy. We should
> steak with the latest in hackage and it should be quite easy if every
> package is in archhaskell repo.
>

Arch is not a testing distro... And it's not even up to date with
Haskell Platform. If you want to "go faster them haskell platform" you
will need to work hard with packaging testing and this seems NOT the
case with Arch at the moment...



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