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

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 13:20, Nicolas Pouillard
<nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:11, Nicolas Pouillard
>> <nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>>>> 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].
>>>
>>> How do you make the distinction between using cabal-install and
>>> [haskell] in you day-to-day use.
>>
>> I don't use cabal-install, so it's simple to make the distinction :)
>
> OK, so I misunderstood «we should never look at cabal as a replacement
> for an Arch repo or [aur].»?
> From this I read that you do want make cabal-install useless in Arch?

No, I meant no such thing.  pacman (with repos) and cabal-install are
at best complementary, and often they aren't even that. This means we
can't say that dropping [aur] OK because users can always turn to
cabal-install.

/M

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