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Dear lazyweb (Arch users and especially DonS ),

I just used yaourt to update my system and it noticed that haskell-time was available in a new version. After answering a few questions I was greeted with this message:

ghc-pkg: unregistering time-1.1.2.3 would break the following packages: hslogger-1.0.7 MissingH-1.1.0
    ConfigFile-1.0.4 convertible-1.0.1 HDBC-2.1.0 HDBC-sqlite3-2.1.0.0 HSH-1.2.6 (use --force to override)
error: scriptlet failed to execute correctly

Is there already some automated way to deal with this? (How to deal with it manually is fairly obvious to me…)

Dear Lazyweb,

Please tell me there’s an easier way of building Python C/C++ extensions (read shared objects) using automake than by using libtool. Please! Please!

I just want a frickin’ .so file, nothing complicated. Is the only way, besides using libtool, to write custom targets?