[arch-haskell] Re: [extra] haskell-parallel

[Peter Hercek]

On 11/11/2010 02:41 PM, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:23:02 +0000, Magnus Therning<magnus at therning.org>  wrote:
>> I made an attempt at providing exactly this, at
>> http://linode3.kiwilight.com/~magnus.therning/archhaskell/x86_64/
>>
>> Please have a look at it and let me know what you find.  I'm fairly
>> sure those packages need some further tweaking, but my gut feeling
>> tells me it *is* possible to do this and end up with a system that is
>> convenient to use.
> Good work, I'm all for the haskell-hp-* versions, this is a nice tradeoff
> between having many versions of each package and only one per package.
> This is really a sitution where we have to concile the strict update policy
> of the Platform and the "latest released" ArchLinux policy.
>
+1
I would like to have the haskell platform versions separated and 
available in a binary form.
Then one can install the latest versions (if needed) in parallel. Aur 
(or something like aur, i.e. source form only) is good enough for the 
latest versions.
Just my opinion.