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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:50:36 +0200
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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Hey Andreas,

On 2015-10-22 at 18:22, quoth Andreas Enge:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 05:43:03PM +0200, Paul van der Walt wrote:
>> Right, i see what you mean.  I agree that it'd probably be the right
>> thing to do.  However, to expedite the merge of wip-haskell-=E2=80=A6 =
i propose
>> that i take the solution of ghc-x11 and apply it to the relevant
>> packages, and then look at fixing the haskell-build-system.  At that
>> point we can simply remove the phases introduced to work around this
>> deficiency.
>> Do you think that's acceptable, or is it imperative* that we first sol=
ve
>> the problem in the build system?
>> I prefer the incremental approach (but i am not an objective outside
>> observer).
>
> I think it sounds reasonable, and would save us from further iterations
> of 150 commits sent to the mailing list :-)

I'm glad i'm not the only one who thinks that way :).  I'll be happy to
have these patches off my plate.

> Seriously, I am impressed by your git juggling.

Haha, thank you :-$, i still have much to learn though.  I guess Guix is
good practice for me? :)

Kind regards,
p.