[Long] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why cabal forces reinstallation of happstack-utils?

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 at gmail.com> writes:
>> Also, I note that you seem to use the Gentoo Haskell overlay (as
>> you've made bug reports about it) but you're also building packages by
>> hand; this can also lead to problems (don't mix your packages kids!).
>> 
>
> Possibly but:
>  - I'd like to have gtk2hs, haskell-platform and ghc on system level
> instead of compiling it on my own. With exception of darcs i'm not using
> anything else from there.
>  - Haskell overlay don't have all packages I need sufficiently fast.
> Well - it don't have everything I need in the first place.

Well, we only update and include packages that _we_ know about and use;
if a package is out of date or you want a new one, pop in to
#gentoo-haskell and ask use.

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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