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[Ross Paterson]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:49:55PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > And then there's the fake dependency of Cabal on util.
> 
> What's the issue here, can someone remind me?

I believe that it was done to fake a conditional dependency (which Cabal
doesn't support yet): to depend on the unix package only on Unix systems.

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