Probably Cabal bug

[Duncan Coutts]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 08:51 +0200, Krasimir Angelov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a package with one library and one executable. Something like this:
> 
> name: ...
> version: ...
> 
> library
>   build-depends: base,
>                  array,
>                  containers,
>                  bytestring,
>                  random
>   ....
> 
> executable ...
>   build-depends: base,
>                  array,
>                  containers,
>                  bytestring,
>                  filepath,
>                  directory,
>                  random,
>                  old-time,
>                  process,
>                  pretty
> 
> Although I specified that the library depends only on few packages the
> installed package really depends on the union of packages for listed
> for the library and for the executable.

Yes.

> I am using Cabal-1.2.3.0. Is this a known issue?

As far as I know that's exactly what it does. Can you be more specific
about what the unexpected behaviour is?

Are you saying that according to "ghc-pkg describe", the depends are
just the build-depends from the library section and not the union?

Duncan