On 28 November 2012 08:28, Joachim Breitner <nome...@debian.org> wrote: > Open question: What should GHC on Debian do when building binaries, > given that all libraries are likely available in both ways – shared or > static. Shared means that all locally built binaries (e.g. xmonad!) will > suddenly break when the user upgrades its Haskell packages, as the > package management is ignorant of unpackaged, locally built programs. > I’d feel more comfortable if that could not happen.
Right, I tried patching Fedora's xmonad for a while to use dynamic linking (it made Mod-q almost instant! :-) but finally reverted it not to confuse people linking their .xmonad/ to user libraries, at least until the time ghc/Cabal support dyn by default... Jens _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
