[arch-haskell] creation of haskell (or ghc) pacman group

[Peter Hercek]

On 10/20/2011 05:38 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 14:29, Peter Hercek<phercek at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> AFAIK, exact pacman dependencies will detect all the problems when
>> installing a binary package. But detection and ease of you is a bit
>> different. I typically have a bit modified ghc itself (mostly to get
>> collored stderr which interleaves with stdout correctly and some other
>> details). So it is not uncommon I want to postpone ghc update and that means
>> all haskell related update. For such a case I want to ignore everything
>> haskell related during updates. I could put in pacman.conf only
>> "IngnorePkg=ghc" but then pacman will spit a ton of warnings about what
>> other packages cannot be updated too and whether I'm aware of it. I happened
>> to have sometimes my own changes to gtk2hs too. This would be another case
>> when I would like to postpone any haskell related update. For this e.g.
>> "IgnoreGroup=haskell" would be really useful. So who can use this group?
>> AFAIK only people who sometimes have modified haskell packages on their
>> systems or because of their own development want to postpone haskell updates
>> a bit. Well and possibly people who want to install everything haskell
>> related as I mentioned below.
> That's a rather specialised use-case AFAIU.
>
> The ArchHaskell team only controls the [haskell] repo, so a group
> would only exist there. It's just as easy to install everything from a
> single repo using the output from `pacman -Sl haskell` then. For the
> use-case of installing all Haskell packages a group only be worthwhile
> if it existed in the official Arch repos as well.

Correct, it does not make sense if the group is not defined in 
extra/community too. It might be that I'm the only one who would have a 
use for it. Maybe other users do not need to postpone updates. In such a 
case the proposal is of course "dead on arrival" :-D

We will see whether anybody else responds. Especially the maintainers of 
haskell packages in extra/community.

Thanks,
Peter.