[arch-haskell] Haskell Platform: feedback sought

[Don Stewart]

magnus:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Don Stewart<dons at galois.com> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > So there's been 3 releases of the Haskell Platform.
> >
> > What is the best approach for Arch to support  this specification?
> > Currently we have an AUR package:
> >
> >    http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26279
> >
> > Should we consider moving this spec into [community]?
> >
> > Should there be some other kind of meta package?
> 
> One thing that I'd like to highlight is my email[1] I sent soon after
> installing haskell-platform a few weeks ago--it resulted in a "diamond
> dependency situation".  I suspect that that sort of situation would be
> easier to avoid if haskell-platform went into [community], or am I
> completely wrong about that?
> 

I think that is correct. The Haskell Platform should form the base of
the packages.