On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM Alexis Praga <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I really like git-annex. To be able to install it requires compiling > dev-lang/ghc (9.2.8 for git-annex-10.20230802) from source, as well as as 253 > packages. > I've recently tried to update a machine what hasn't been updated in 3 years > and the dev-haskell/* packages were so difficult to update I had to remove > all of them and reinstall them.
I've recently learned [1] that haskell-updater is the solution for broken Haskell updates. When I see those scheduled, I now exclude them from a typical @world update and then run haskell-updater separately afterwards. [1]: https://github.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-haskell/issues/1801 -- D. Ben Knoble
