[Haskell-cafe] Re: Fwd: installing happy 1.17

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 21:20 +0200, Bertram Felgenhauer wrote:
> Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > The immediate workarounds are:
> >       * unregister Cabal-1.5.2
> 
> Better, hide it (that's reversible) - or does that not work with
> cabal-install?

If Cabal ignored hidden packages then you could never install packages
that depend on the ghc package since that's always hidden.

Though again we could use that as a preference rather than a hard
constraint.

Duncan