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Agreed on xmonad, xmonad-contrib. They're not buildable currently, however. Need to be patched or wait for their next release.

ghc has utf8-string-0.3.4, which is not recent enough for a lot of packages, that's why there's a newer haskell-utf8-string.

Also, gtk2hs seems unbuildable. haskell-x11 and x11-xft should be there already.

xmonad-darcs works with ghc-6.12. Recommended that people use that until they get a new release out.

Ah, somehow I had missed that the xmonad team had released 0.9.1, which is a ghc-6.12 bugfix release.

Built and uploaded xmonad and xmonad-contrib 0.9.1 to community (i686 only, my x86_64 is not available during the weekends). If somebody wants to build x86_64, that'd be great.

thank you for the update

user chpln on the forum mentioned this comment:

haskell-mtl has just been moved to [extra], though the xmonad PKGBUILD does not seem to have it in 'depends='. Could you try installing haskell-mtl manually and, if this solves it, mention this in the bug-report?

this did in fact solve a problem i had while upgrading the xmonad package, so it seems a useful addition to the package.

I'm using xmonad 0.9.1-1 and xmonad-contrib 0.9.1-1, installed haskell-ml dependency manually, but still having problem with haskell-x11-xft ("command failed to execute correctly"). This breaks xmonad-contrib ("dependency "X11-xft-0.3-65a3d4bba0622425cc778517c9ac67cb" doesn't exist").

Also, the dependencies for xmonad-contrib are still wrong. It depends on haskell-utf8-string without specifying a version number. I think it should depend on haskell-utf8-string=0.3.6. Otherwise it picks up haskell-utf8-string=0.3.4 provided by ghc, which is too old for xmonad-contrib to function properly.

Rebuilt xmonad-0.9.1-2 and xmonad-contrib-0.9.1-2 for both arches. Perhaps that'll clear away the trouble.

Added several libs that were with ghc before: xhtml, parallel, quickcheck, hunit, haskell-src, stm, deepseq.

Yeah, I can confirm that xmonad and xmonad-contrib install and work fine on x86_64 now. Thanks!

hmm didnt know about 0.9.1

A few things:
XMonad
. updated the pkgdesc
. since "sh" is already in [core] it probably should not be listed in depends()
. since utf8-string is not listed in xmonad.cabal, haskell-utf8-string probably should not be listed in depends()
. xmonad-contrib should be added to optdepends()
. does the line "install -d -m755 $pkgdir/usr/share/xmonad" serve any purpose?
. is the weird "&> /dev/null" still needed in xmonad.install?

XMonad-Contrib
. updated the pkgdesc
. since "sh" is already in [core] it probably should not be listed in depends()
. According to xmonad-contrib.cabal the flag "use_utf8" no longer exists and utf8-string is now a global dependency
. According to xmonad-contrib.cabal the flag "with_xft" is now "use_xft"
. Since a depends() is also a makedepends(), the makedepends() line is probably not necessary as everything is inherited from the xmonad package.

And the future is looking brighter for gtk2hs:
http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/archives/2010/01/18/compiling-with-ghc-612/

At this point: only remains gtk2hs right?

Yes, and since there's http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18032 I'll close this one.