[Haskell-cafe] Problem with cabal-install where package requires* mutually exclusive versions of another package

[Denis Bueno]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:40, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> A medium term solution here should involve letting packages specify that
> some of their dependencies are private, ie nothing is re-exported and
> thus there is no danger of clashes.

Is the long term solution to automatically detect what is exported?
It seems feasible, since I think that is a totally static property,
no?

                              Denis