[Haskell-cafe] Hackage on Linux

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Sun Aug 22 07:33:11 EDT 2010


Jonas Almström Duregård <jonas.duregard at gmail.com> writes:

>> Now, you say it's preferable to use the native package manager where
>> possible. I've got one word for you: Windows. You know, the most popular OS
>> on the market? The one installed on 98% of all computers world-wide? Guess
>> what: no native package manager.
>
> Isn't Windows Installer (MSI) a package manager?

Can you say "please download and install darcs for me and take care of
any dependencies it might need whilst you're at it" with MSI?

MSI is more analogous to RPM/deb packages than to yum/apt.

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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