[Haskell-cafe] Hackage on Linux

[Don Stewart]

deteego:
> 
> If people just wanted an auto udpate version of cabal that works through arch's
> package management, then there should have just been a pacman wrapper which
> when you install/update haskell libraries/packages, it creates a local package
> through cabal2arch instead of using AUR.
> 

bauerbill --hackage supports this (its a good tool). However, one
benefit of AUR + Hackage is that cabal2arch was developed and maintained
-- which solves the problem of resolving C libraries for the distro --
something cabal-install can't do.

-- Don