On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:00:12AM +0100, Cédric Girard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: > > > >> Second, my own experience lead me to disable [haskell] repository > > >> on my computers because some packages were out of date but where > > >> picked before AUR ones by the aur helper I use. > > > > > > Hence the confusion around this issue. If Haskell AUR packages are > > > indeed being deprecated then is [haskell] now more of a definitive > > > source or is it *also* not well maintained? > > > > I'd say it's fairly well maintained. > > Well maybe my experience on this is not the latest. Last time I > tried [haskell] was some months ago and I believe there was some > changes in the arch-haskell team since. > > Anyway some of the old arch-haskell PKGBUILDs in the AUR have been > adopted since the mass orphan and I think the situation will get > better there as maintenance will be spread among more people. I on the other hand suspect it won't get much better at all :-) There is a real risk that having several maintainers will result in packages that, while they are up-to-date, don't play well together. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay
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