[Haskell-cafe] cabal fun (not)

Ivan Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 21:33:18 EST 2010


On 6 February 2010 01:05, Johannes Waldmann
<waldmann at imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote:
> so please please please have "cabal install" fail with some error
> message if (that is, before) the install would break anything. - J.

If you upgrade a library, it will break all other libraries that
depend upon it.  "ghc-pkg list" will tell you which libraries are
broken and need to be rebuilt.

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