On 2014-04-10 06:39, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Now that aside is finished, what is the deal with that arch-haskell >> group? Is it still going? Would they want to provide packages >> officially instead? > > > I wouldn't actually be opposed to this idea. > > A lot of effort is duplicated with regards to Archlinux's official haskell > packages and Arch-Haskell's packages. > > We could try to work out something between the existing haskell package > maintainers and arch-haskell maintainers. > > It might lead to a possibly better overall haskell experience on archlinux. > > Arch-haskell could maintain official haskell packages using pacman. > I (and anyone interested) could support haskell package installation using > the cabal-install route. > Would this mean that only "ghc" and "cabal-install" would be in any of the official repos and that everything else would be relegated to "arch-haskell"? If so, then +1. (As mentioned in another email I think Haskell distro packaging in general could use a rethink, possibly based on sandboxing.) Regards,
