[Haskell-cafe] A new cabal odissey: cabal-1.8 breaking its own neck by updating its dependencies

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 9/11/10 15:43 , Daniel Fischer wrote:
> On Saturday 11 September 2010 20:38:21, Paolo Giarrusso wrote:
>> - is there a "specification" of which are the "core" packages?
> 
> "core" as in *do not update*?
> Basically, what comes with GHC shouldn't be updated.
> Though I heard updating Cabal was okay.

Some consistency would be nice; IIRC GHC refers to them as "boot libraries".

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