[petsc-dev] Sean is going to love this

[Jed Brown]

Geoff Oxberry <goxberry at gmail.com> writes:
> I also agree that mixing package managers is a mess. I still prefer it to
> manual installation in most cases. A single package manager solution would
> be best, but I have yet to see one effectively incorporate existing
> language-specific package ecosystems.

Haskell's package manager (Cabal) has an API.  Arch Linux's Haskell
packages are created automatically using that API, with any compliance
violations flagged for a person to check.  This way hundreds of packages
are automatically kept up-to-date without asking Arch users to mix
package managers.
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