[arch-haskell] Problems with haskell-chart and haskell-gio; was Re: Updating

[gdweber at iue.edu]

Update works fine now, with haskell-chart 0.14-24; thank you!

On 2011-Nov-24, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 09:30:19PM -0500, gdweber at iue.edu wrote:
> > I'm getting some errors updating due to inconsistent versions of
> > some of the packages listed below -- this started occurring, I
> > think, between Nov. 19 and Nov. 21:
> 
> This is due to updates that have been made to [community] three days
> ago.  I have still not come up with a good way to monitor [extra] and
> [community] in an efficient way to be able to catch these events.
> 
> > And if I try re-installing the GTk-related packages as Magnus
> > suggested, it's still the same:
> 
> The suggestion to re-install worked fine up until [community] was
> updated.
> 
> > By the way, is it planned to have _no_ packages in [haskell] that
> > are in [community]?  And is it still recommended to have [haskell]
> > above [community] in /etc/pacman.conf?
> 
> Yes on the former question.
> 
> Regarding the latter, I continue to have [haskell] above [community]
> on my important systems for the simple reason that TUs have a tendency
> to just adopt packages into [community] without any sort of
> announcement.
> 
> /M
> 
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