[Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for >>=

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 19 June 2011 20:26, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 19.06.2011, 15:33 +1000 schrieb Mark Wright:
>> Fedora, Debian, FreeBSD:
>>
>> I don't use them, however I think they have very good support for
>> Haskell packaging.  For example, Fedora updates the haddock documentation
>> index as pkgs are installed and removed
>
> same on Debian, file:///usr/share/doc/ghc-doc/html/libraries/index.html
> is one of the most-visited locations in my computer :-)
>
> For Debian, you can check where we deviate from the Haskell Platform on
> http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/platform.html
> and
> http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/hackagevsdebian.html
> gives you an idea of our coverage of Hackage.
>
> And, something that we are proud of: The dependencies between the
> Haskell library packages include the ABI hash, so an apt-get upgrade
> will never break installed Haskell libraries, but only upgrade if all
> depending packages have been rebuilt.

Are these binary or source packages that you use the ABI hash?  Also,
how do you manage to update the documentation index on package
installation/removal?

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