On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I would like to keep XMonad/XMobar in [community] it does seem to take up > a big chunk of the haskell-* packages we have in our repos. But I've never > ran into real big issues packaging haskell libraries, one minor issue is > that the developers tend to oversplit packages for example > haskell-data-default-* . This really makes packaging haskell libraries > annoying. I don't want to prevent people from maintaining haskell packages in supported repos. I just want to make cabal-install a path with which people don't have to think twice about. > I would prefer that we don't package vim plugins or firefox extensions. > Firefox has it's own extension manager and vim has a lot of solutions which > work better then pacman I also share this belief about haskell. Both pacman and cabal-install have their own pros and cons, but for my personally, I find that cabal-install has more benefit to me personally for haskell packages. > > How many haskell developers actually use our packages in the repos/aur > rather then using caba-install? I can only speak from personal experience, but I have used cabal-install exclusively for a couple of years now not just for development but for also installing tools like xmonad. My guess is that given the limited supply of packages in our repos, I can guestimate 0 use it for development but there might be a lot of users that actually use the haskell tools like xmonad.
