[xmonad] Ubuntu, Xmonad, and Xinerama

[Roman Cheplyaka]

* David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> [2008-03-19 12:09:41-0400]
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 06:02:14PM +0200, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
> > * Christopher Sanner <hitch at propheteer.org> [2008-03-19 11:24:58-0400]
> > >
> > > David Roundy wrote:
> > >> Someone really should figure out how to build software reliably using ghc
> > >> packages.  This is just embarassing.  And then we could tell the cabal
> > >> folks how to do this.
> > >>
> > >> I understand that dons is reluctant to load up ghc every time xmonad loads,
> > >> but perhaps we could figure out some way to track the modification date of
> > >> the xmonad and/or xmonad-contrib packages and recompile if those have
> > >> changed.
> > >>   
> > > alternatively, could the installation of xmonad or xmonad-contrib could  
> > > include post-install actions to kick off recompiling?
> > 
> > Note that xmonad can be installed system-wide (say, with
> > --prefix=/usr/local) and going to every user's .xmonad does not look
> > sane.
> 
> As a workaround, however, we could install an empty file as /etc/xmonad,
> and then we could trigger a recompile whenever this file is newer than
> xmonad.hs.  It might be easier to do this than to figure out where ghc
> stores its packages to look at their timestamp (which would be the right
> thing to do).

1. (Just in case someone will take this approach) Programs (other than
   editors or package managers) should avoid touching /etc, I believe.
   So you better use /var.
2. In case of --user install, that file should be placed under
   ~/.xmonad. It may seem that just touching xmonad.hs is simpler,
   but... It's not very ethical from my point of view.


-- 
Roman I. Cheplyaka (aka Feuerbach @ IRC)
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