[xmonad] Could not load modules after recent update

[Brandon Allbery]

For what it's worth, the Arch Wiki warns about this (
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xmonad#Problems_with_finding_shared_libraries_after_update)
and gives solutions. The way Arch manages its Haskell packages causes
problems like this.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 2:03 PM Platon Pronko <platon7pronko at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2024-10-20 19:46, Eyal Erez wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use xmonad on arch linux. I've recently updated my system, as one
> > often does, and now my xmonad.hs is failing to compile and I am failing
> to
> > start xmonad.
> >
>
> Might not be very helpful, but I'm also on Arch and I moved from using
> system-provided Haskell packages for my xmonad needs.
>
> System-provided packages are upgraded almost on every update, and xmonad
> has to be recompiled every time, and if you forget to recompile it then
> after a reboot your DE won't work and you have to drop to a tty to fix that.
>
> Also, there is a truckload of haskell packages and they clutter up the
> update logs - removing them freshened up things considerably.
>
> So I can't help you with this particular problem, but I can help you
> transition to stack-based install, which has the nice benefit of not
> breaking on system updates.
> (however, it has the downside of taking 13GB of space in the ~/.stack/
> folder, YMMV)
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Platon Pronko
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