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i bet it may be better on different OS and distributions but on arch haskell is a friggin nightmare. at least the arch wiki page for it is more complaining abou

• johnisgood 5y ago
  I see so many updates for Haskell-related packages all the damn time.
• juxtapose 5y ago
  Well, if they ask for trouble, trouble will come. Haskell packaging is no different from Rust packaging: native executables statically linked with many small packages; both rely critically on cross-module inline for performance; no stable ABI. Arch Linux wants to provide an _up-to-date_ compatible set of Haskell packages, instead of relying on the established Stackage like what NixOS does. This certainly causes frustrations as they must do a lot of patches. End users don't benefit from this decision; they complain about a large number of tiny packages. Haskell devs don't benefit either, as they don't use packages provided by the OS -- just like any other Python/Node/Java/etc dev. Rust programmers use rustup+cargo, Python programmers use pip; likewise Haskell programmers use ghcup+cabal. That being said, I respect their efforts and the packagers (Felix Yan, et al.). They made great efforts in updating a large number of old packages to be compatible with GHC 9.x.