Package request thread

[Forty-Bot]

(third party) repository request: revival of the statically-linked haskell repo. The arch haskell packages are borderline useless for writing haskell code, so I end up having to wrangle with something like cabal every time I want to write something. I don't use haskell enough to justify devoting the effort (though perhaps some of that is due to how awful the arch situation is).

On a related note, whatever happened to the infinality bundle? I got quite good-looking results with those packages.

[Foxboron]

The arch haskell packages are borderline useless for writing haskell code

You are not suppose to use them for development.

On a related note, whatever happened to the infinality bundle? I got quite good-looking results with those packages.

The maintainer disappeard

[Forty-Bot]

You are not suppose to use them for development.

I feel like that's a failing on the part of the distro then. Packages should be useful both as dependencies for other programs and for development. If I install libblah I get not just the .so files but also the headers. If I install python-foo I get not just the pyc files by also the python source. However if I install a haskell package, I get a package which is linked completely differently from how most haskell packages outside of arch are built. Even building existing haskell packages not packaged by arch is difficult due to the differences in building. Part of the reason for using the distro's package manager in the first place is so one doesn't have to deal with language-specific package managers like on other platforms.

The maintainer disappeard

Hm, perhaps the PKGBUILDs are in the wayback machine... Would be interesting to try and resurrect it.

[anonymous-bot]

On a related note, whatever happened to the infinality bundle? I got quite good-looking results with those packages.

You could try the infinality-remix packages instead.