On 04/09/2014 01:27 AM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
Problem 2: Users are confused whether they should install packages from the
repos or using cabal-install. This in turn sometimes causes them to install
some packages from official repos, some from the aur, and some using
cabal-install
Explanation: Packages should ideally be installed from one place, either
using repos/aur or cabal-install. Said that, it is entirely possible to use
both repos/aur and cabal-install but for simplicity, one source is
preferred.
Doesn't every language with its own package manager have this problem?
For example, Python. Is there a good solution? Users knowing about
this issue and making their own decisions is the current solution on
every distro I'm familiar with.
Change 2: Make a news item stating that cabal-install is now the
recommended way to install haskell packages. This wouldn't pollute the
filesystem since cabal-install installs packages to the ~/.cabal directory
by default. We might need to include a tip sheet about how you would handle
ghc updates since it requires extra user steps.
This is the way I do it on my personal computer, FWIW.
If there were any packages in the repo written in Haskell that are used
by non-Haskellers, then all those packages' deps would have to be in the
repos too. (e.g. darcs and pandoc, which are in AUR currently).
Cheers,
-Isaac
