On 24 August 2010 15:50, Mathew de Detrich <dete...@gmail.com> wrote: > I used to use archlinux packages however it became a pain for the following > reasons > > - packages on archlinux don't auto update when cabal does. This becomes > really annoying when package X gets updated on cabal but not on arch and > causes conflicts with other packages
Huh? Are you referring to doing a "cabal update"? If so, how is this causing conflicts? Are you mixing and matching distro packages with packages installed by hand? I thought Don kept the external Haskell repository up to date with the packages on Hackage... > - in some situations doing a general update with arch (through clyde or > packer) breaks ghc (last time it happened packer tried to uninstall/update > arch packages which failed because those packages had dependencies. The > files got removed but since unregister failed ghc thought they still > existed) Is this the problem with bad packages or the package manager playing up? > Apart from base/required packages, unless your linux distro has proper > metapackages its in my opinion just better off using cabal install (and only > use arch packages for binaries) What do you mean by "metapackages"? -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe