[Haskell-cafe] Hackage dependencies problem.

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 19 November 2012 18:21, Magicloud Magiclouds
<magicloud.magiclouds at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am having ghc 7.6.1 working here. But anytime I installed something with
> cabal-install, I got prompts like:
>
> Warning: The following packages are likely to be broken by the reinstalls:
> haskell98-2.0.0.2
> ghc-7.6.1
> Cabal-1.16.0
> bin-package-db-0.0.0.0
> directory-1.2.0.0
> hpc-0.6.0.0
> Continuing even though the plan contains dangerous reinstalls.
>
>   And even worse, then I got:
>
> <command line>: cannot satisfy -package Cabal-1.16.0:
>     Cabal-1.16.0-dd0ce1db6fea670a788547ee85411486 is unusable due to missing
> or recursive dependencies:
>       directory-1.2.0.0-8edf300597b0da609c8eccc9aa6d0cc3
> process-1.1.0.2-03ae5757aa509ffbe497f42660cba52c
> unix-2.6.0.0-4bc27fc415f60036a88211de7cde3e9a
>     (use -v for more information)
>
>   What should I do? Why user space directory and process would interrupt
> Cabal in global space?

It shouldn't.

Can you please give an example of a package that gives you an error like this?

Also, what does "ghc-pkg check" say?

The only thing I can think of is that you're trying to upgrade a
package like array, containers, etc.

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