[Haskell-cafe] Package Management with Stack?

[Matt]

Stack does have a notion of a global project, which it uses if you're not
in a project directory. The error message you received:

  Error: While constructing the build plan, the following exceptions
  were encountered:

  In the dependencies for xmonad-contrib-0.13:
      X11-xft must match >=0.2, but the stack configuration has no
      specified version (latest applicable is 0.3.1)

  Recommended action: try adding the following to your extra-deps in
  /home/jun/.stack/global-project/stack.yaml:
  - X11-xft-0.3.1

tells you how to make X11-xft-0.3.1 available to the global project, which
should allow you to install xmonad-contrib into this global package.

Matt Parsons

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Jun Inoue <jun.lambda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Am I fundamentally misunderstanding how stack is supposed to be used?
>
>
> Stack is not a package manager. It is a reproducible builds tool. Ad hoc
> usage like you are doing is outside of its purview.
>
> Also, last I checked, for some reason xmonad-contrib wasn't in stackage,
> so stack's primary mechanism for avoiding conflicts fails.
>
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