[Haskell-cafe] Cabal: top level dependency base -any

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 24 May 2011 18:13, Andres Loeh <mail at andres-loeh.de> wrote:
> Hi.
>
>> So would it be correct to infer that the -any restriction will only (and
>> always) come into play with special packages such as base?
>
> No. Unfortunately, -any really means "any version is allowed", so
> that's why the error message is really misleading.
>
>> Are there any other special packages besides base?
>
> W.r.t. Cabal's dependency resolution? No.

Well, don't other boot libraries have similar mis-behaviour?

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