[GHC] #15726: Don't include Haskeline (and others) in the global package DB

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Sat Jan 19 11:47:53 UTC 2019


#15726: Don't include Haskeline (and others) in the global package DB
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        Reporter:  judah             |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Build System      |              Version:  8.6.1
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Comment (by hvr):

 Replying to [comment:4 bgamari]:

 > > Are you sure the original issue why we started properly registering
 GHCi's dependencies around GHC 7.8 has been dealt with? Otherwise this
 will just throw us back to square one with the bugs/issues we had pre-7.8.
 >
 > Not at all; can you refresh our memories on what those issues were?

 comment:ticket:8919:17 gives a summary of the issues involved which
 eventually lead to 4caadb7cbee5c176abb99df25c4cc1657ae57f40; and you can
 find some potential approaches to addressing the issue mentioned in the
 surrounding discussion.

 Note however, that `lib:Cabal` has also slowly been acquiring more
 dependencies, such as `lib:mtl`, `lib:text` or `lib:parsec` (and I've
 recently realised that the option of not bundling `lib:Cabal` with GHC is
 not feasible anymore for reasons related to catch-22s in the bootstrapping
 process).

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Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15726#comment:5>
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