Arch does not keep 2 python packages. There are simply 2 pythons (different programs). And this is true not only for Arch but for practically any other distro.<br><br>Obvious solution for arch is IgnorePkg in the pacman.conf. That's what i did (until Yesod officially supports newest ghc).<br><br><br>On Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:24:16 PM UTC-7, timoth...@seznam.cz wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Actually Arch has been accommodating in other cases when there was a stable library and a new/developing. It certainly keeps around two versions of python, autoconf, GTK, qt, gambas... The solution I'm proposing would be a little different than those cases, but on the same principle.<br><br><p>Timothy<br>---------- Původní zpráva ----------<br>Od: Patrick Palka <<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="uEz5wBVRaY8J">pat...@parcs.ath.cx</a>><br>Datum: 28. 10. 2012<br>Předmět: Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC maintenance on Arch</p><blockquote><div>On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 5:54 PM, <span><<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="uEz5wBVRaY8J">timoth...@seznam.cz</a>></span> wrote:<br><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><p> There seems to be a bit of a clash between ghc being a tool, and ghc being a toy. There need not be. Your works-for-me is great but it is meaningless to those of us who use ghc as a tool for larger projects.</p>
</div></blockquote><div>This is not specific to GHC. Arch Linux, being a bleeding-edge Linux distribution, tends to prefer newer versions of software over more stable versions of software. I doubt that facet of Arch Linux will ever change, so perhaps you should reevaluate your choice of Linux distribution or avoid pacman/package updates for software whose stability and predictability is critical to you.</div>
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