[arch-haskell] Unable to install haskell-hlint

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Wed Mar 7 19:06:52 CET 2012


On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 01:02:54PM +0100, Alessandro Pezzoni wrote:
>> Thanks, that worked. It seems a bit counter-intuitive though.
> 
> I think it has been named like that because ghc provides the haddock
> binary, but not the library. But probably Magnus Therning, who
> managed the merge of [ghc74] and [haskell], can tell you more about
> this.

Indeed, that is the reason.  Adding a proper version of haddock, as
haskell-haddock, is in the cards for the near future.

/M

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