Cabal and simultaneous installations of the same package

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On 2015-03-23 at 09:52:31 +0100, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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> So my word of warning here is: if we simply throw multiple
> package/version/dependency combinations at users via cabal, there's a good
> chance that we'll do more harm than good.

Nevertheless, the best way to find out is to actually try it by
implementing it... if in fact it doesn't work out as well as expected,
we don't have to ship it :-)