[Haskell-cafe] Re: Updating Haskell Packages through Archlinux becoming A Pain

[Mathew de Detrich]

This is an example of what happens
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts
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ghc-pkg: unregistering gio-0.11.1 would break the following packages:
ltk-0.8.0.8 gtksourceview2-0.12.1 gtk-0.11.2 (use --force to override)
error: command failed to execute correctly
(1/1) upgrading haskell-gio
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Reading package info from stdin ... done.

In other words, pacman still syncs the package (puts the files on the
system) and causes GHC to break, and if you do this for a big update, you
have to manually go through and fix it all
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