[Haskell-cafe] I do not want to be a bitch, but ghc-6.8.3 and haskell binary policy are really horrible.

[Jules Bean]

John Van Enk wrote:
> Could you, perhaps, outline a little more of what you're trying to do? 
> I'm having a hard time seeing what exactly you're doing, and why you 
> can't use the package provided by your distribution.
> 
> We'd love to help you, but you're not being very clear with what your 
> problem is.

As far as I can see, his problem was

cabal update && cabal upgrade

which seems like a sensible command to run, but actually isn't.

Jules