[arch-haskell] Dropping (most of) AUR?

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Tue Nov 8 10:32:05 CET 2011


On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 21:01, Bernardo Barros <bernardobarros2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Magnus Therning
>> Any thoughts or comments on this?
>>
>
> But there is also cases like qtHaskell that are not straightforward to
> build by hand, and it is not in hackage. That should have a [aur] if
> not present in [haskell]

qtHaskell is special, because it's not on Hackage. That's why it isn't
in [haskell].

> In most cases since cabal does a better job, [aur] packages should be
> strongly discouraged.

IMNSHO we should never look at cabal as a replacement for an Arch repo or [aur].

/M

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