[Haskell-cafe] Cabal issue

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 06:20, Kevin Jardine <kevinjardine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Had problem with deprecated package, was told my only option was to wipe
> my Haskell install and start over. Is this true and if so, doesn't this
> mean that Cabal (or the package management system that it is a part of) is
> broken?
>

http://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after-me-cabal-is-not-a-package-manager/

(in short:  yes, it's broken, and probably not fixable.  cabal is a
friendlyish wrapper for ghc-pkg, which is not a package manager in the
sense many people want it to be, and it never will be.)

Something *really* needs to be done about its absurd willingness to blindly
override bootlibs and thereby break things, though.

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