[Haskell-cafe] haskell platform broken in ubuntu

[Rustom Mody]

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Vagif Verdi <vagif.verdi at gmail.com> wrote:

> That will give you only ghc 7.6.2. If you want latest haskell-platform,
> source compile is the only option. And btw it is not THAT painful :)
> You run the script, wait 2-3 minutes and tada!
>
>
Ok so someone is very confused -- maybe me :-)

http://askubuntu.com/questions/286764/how-to-install-haskell-platform-for-ubuntu-13-04

seems to say that compiling from source takes like two full nights!!

Am I missing something?
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