Haskell/FAQ

= General Questions =

Q. Does Gentoo Linux support Haskell?
A. Yes, it does!

Q. Do you really write all those ebuilds by hand?
A. Yes and no. There is nice tool, called hackport available in  haskell overlay. In simplest cases adding package to overlay is a matter of issuing: hackport merge $package_name Hackport can't do everything at this moment, so look carefully what it creates!

= Random Resource links =

Q. What gentoo-haskell related resources are there?

 * Most of development takes place at irc://freenode/#gentoo-haskell
 * Patches are stored as darcs repository in overlay format.

To get it you can use layman: $ layman -a haskell


 * There is weblog


 * You can also track portage status for haskell packages here