[Haskell-cafe] Really impossible to reinstall `base' using cabal?

[Daniel Fischer]

On Tuesday 25 October 2011, 22:32:23, Captain Freako wrote:
> dbanas at dbanas-eeepc:~$ cabal install base
> 
> and got this:
> 
> Resolving dependencies...
> cabal: internal error: impossible
> 
> Is it really impossible to use cabal to reinstall `base'?

Fortunately, yes. Reinstalling base is impossible (at least with GHC, might 
be possible with other compilers), so it's good that cabal doesn't even 
try.