[arch-haskell] Does ArchHaskell still have purpose?

2017-01-08 Thread Magnus Therning
Hi all, Well, the subject line says it all really. Does ArchHaskell still have a role in the Arch world? These are the reasons for asking this at this point: - the Haskell packages in [community] now number more than 400 and there is considerable overlap with ArchHaskell (unfortunately it's n

Re: [arch-haskell] Does ArchHaskell still have purpose?

2017-01-08 Thread Johan Holmquist
I'd say that binary packages are really valuable for installing a global haskell dev environment for quick hacks and scripts for which it would not be practical to setup a project and download and build a lot of deps. At least ghc and base should be installed globally so one can just fire up the RE