On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 13:19, Peter Hercek <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> I found out (on archlinux irc channel) that pacman does not store what
> repository a given package was installed from. So if we install a package
> which has the same name in both [extra] and [haskell] there is no easy way
> to find out what repository it was installed from. So if we happen to use
> different version of ghc in [haskell] and [extra] then we should add some
> tag to packages coming form [haskell] (e.g. add them to some group (like
> e.g. fromHaskellRepository). This is to allow an easier way to identify if
> some package is installed from different than [haskell] respository. Since
> such packages would cause breakage.

[haskell] is an add-on on top of [extra]/[community], so there is no
need to tag packages in any way.  This is why we are so interested in
the plans for GHC and other Haskell packages in [extra]/[community].

/M

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