Re: [gentoo-user] Haskell hell

[John Covici]

On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 02:55:38 -0400,
Klaus Ethgen wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
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> Currently I suffer from the bad haskell hell. I need the current
> git-annex that is only available in the haskell overlay.
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> Unfortunately this brings me into the haskell dependency hell. For two
> days I am constantly adding keywords for one more package, emerging it,
> doing haskell-updater, doing emerge @preserved-rebuild and starting over
> again.
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> It seems that no single package in thatoverlay, that is marked green is
> working and I have to add a keyword overwrite for them.
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> Isn't there a way to escape the haskell dependency hell? Is there a
> clean way to compile and use haskell stuff? That is a real nightmare.

I use the overlay and the last major update was a pain.  I had  errors
when compiling the preserved-rebuild list, so I had to create a bash
script and do them individually.  Sometimes a package needed something
further down in the list, so I had to compile that one first.  If I
remember correctly I had to compile a couple of packages with
--nodeps, but I am not sure about that.  I hope this helps you.

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