It has usefulness, and it's more than a duplicate. It includes a patch for fixing errors with the default static build options, to make it easier for people wanting a fresh cabal and ghc install that is capable of building packages instead of failing to build pretty much anything once installed, without configuration to fix them other than dropped command-line flags that were being ignored (this part at least has already been fixed). I shared it hoping it would benefit more than just me. There already is an issue (#8624) and work for it, and hopefully they can be finished in not too long, and then upstream will have the patches too. Byron On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 10:01 AM <notify@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ghc-cabal-arts [2]:

Duplicate of extra repo's cabal-install, ghc, ghc-libs, ghc-static - bundled together.

As per AUR submission guidelines, please kindly file a bug report if there is an issue needed to be solved in repo packages, but don't duplicate them on AUR.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ghc-cabal-arts/