I believe your main question (how do I do my work without wasting time) has already been answered: use IgnorePkg.
I would like to add, in case you missed it, that there is a mailing list and community specifically for Haskell on Arch. Here is the webpage: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchHaskell The [haskell] repository is currently in sync with Hackage and builds with the latest ghc. (It does not yet include all of Hackage; your help would be welcome.) (The [haskell-web] and [haskell-extra] repos include more packages, with more or less in-sync-ness and omissions due to ghc 7.6 failures.) Ultimately we do want Arch packages for Haskell packages, because cabal is not a package manager (see https://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after-me-cabal-is-not-a-package-manager/ ). On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 8:49 PM, <timothyho...@seznam.cz> wrote: > Hello, > Who is in charge of the ghc and haskell packages on Arch linux? The > current system isn't working. > > Arch linux tends to update packages very quickly. > > For ghc, always having the latest ghc isn't a good thing. At least if you > actually want to get some work done. A majority of the time the latest GHC > is unusable. This is because the packages in hackage simply don't keep up. > With the current ghc version(7.6.1) even some basic packages in hackage are > not upgraded yet. > > Right now, a large number of other haskell related packages are in the > arch repos. Other than gtk2hs, I think these packages are pointless > duplications. In the other cases, it has been my experience that it is > simpler to maintain these packages through cabal rather than through > pacman. Support for these packages in Arch should probably be dropped. > > If you want to get work done in Arch with haskell, you should only install > ghc and cabal-install(right now, you'll have to search the Internet for the > old binaries, because the arch repos usually don't keep the old versions > around). Then you should add these packages to "IgnorePkg =" in > pacman.conf this way things won't break every couple of months. You can > then choose to upgrade when you wish. > > I hope that someone who is involved with the haskell Arch stuff reads > this. The current model needs to be rethought. Linux should be sane by > default, but I've lost many many hours learning that arch's relationship > with haskell is not so :( Probably the best solution would be to make Arch > automatically keep two versions of ghc around at any given time. > > Thank you for your time, > Timothy Hobbs > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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